"edu-babble" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992 November 17, “Schoolspeak”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch",
          "text": "Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change, page 412",
          "text": "Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Gwendolyn Green, Edu-Babble: The Glamorous World of the New York City Public School System, page 3",
          "text": "These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical.",
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        "Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon."
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        "(education, derogatory) Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "edubabble"
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        "uncountable"
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      "topics": [
        "education"
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  "word": "edu-babble"
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    {
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