educationese

Even Barack Obama occasionally spouts windy, empty educationese.

Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Reason to Cheer: Common Sense About Schools From Thinking Observers 2009

Actually, if I use the correct educationese, it is a shared reading.

Archive 2007-12-01 Franki 2007

Actually, if I use the correct educationese, it is a shared reading.

7 Things Meme Franki 2007

However, why do we have to worry about translating educationese.

Archive 2006-01-01 Matt Johnston 2006

To those concerned about language in contemporary society, jargon has understandably become a repulsive term signifying a cloudy, pretentious insider's language subdivided into ugly types such as psychobabble, educationese, sociologese, and bureaucratese.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4 1981

To put it another way, in the peremptorily utopian style typical of official Chinese directives as well as of educationese the world over, the nation’s schools must strive “to build citizens’ character in an all-round way, gear their efforts to each and every student, give full scope to students’ ideological, moral, cultural and scientific potentials and raise their labor skills and physical and psychological aptitudes, achieve vibrant student development and run themselves with distinction.”

SWEATblog: April 2007 Archives 2007

To put it another way, in the peremptorily utopian style typical of official Chinese directives as well as of educationese the world over, the nation’s schools must strive “to build citizens’ character in an all-round way, gear their efforts to each and every student, give full scope to students’ ideological, moral, cultural and scientific potentials and raise their labor skills and physical and psychological aptitudes, achieve vibrant student development and run themselves with distinction.”

SWEATblog: Chinese educational re-form in NY Times Sunday Magazine 2007