Grant Lichtman has just suggested a bunch of words better than grit And they all work. And now it’s time to take on the rigor. Grit and rigor – sounds like a scouring powder or bathroom cleanser rather than a prescription for learning. Take a look at these definitions and then consider why on earth people would want to associate it…
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The Perils of EdSpeak: Play in Danger
As a follow-up to my post The Perils of Education I was preparing a piece on play. My chief concern being that the word play – like the word progressive – is itself so plastic and open to so many interpretations that defining it is like holding water in your hand: However hard you try to hang on it dribbles…