Edutalk

We all remember when the library morphed into the media center. The Washington Post has an article detailing the changing vocabularly in the academic community. "Talking the Edutalk" lists the following terminology revisions:

Students don't compare books, they make "text to text connections."

There is no more detention. Rather, miscreants are sent to the "alternative instruction room," the "reinforcement room," or the "reflection room."

Reading is now referred to as SSR or "sustained silent reading."

Essays are "extended constructed responses," and paragraphs are "brief constructed responses."

Multiple choice exams? Nope. Think "selected response assessments."

Why just learn to subtract when you can "model efficient subtraction strategies"?

That's not a classroom trailer out back . . . it's a "learning cottage."

Students don't take classes. They accumulate "standard units of credit."

Why do they do this? That's the best part of the article! One educator says this nonsense is in the interest of (get this) clarity! "My hope is that we're creating language for kids that is more explicit and to the point than it is confusing." Oh man, that is too much.