Neologisms That Sound Ridiculous Usually Are Ridiculous—and Telltale Indicators of the Corporatization of the Professions

It is, of course, one of the great linguistic ironies that education in general and higher education in particular are among the most jargon-ridden of the disciplines. Indeed, it may be that our penchant for almost endlessly creating and re-creating jargon has made us especially susceptible to the jargon invented by the “educational reformers,” the…