How dumbed down can K-12 pedagogies get? Very dumb indeed, as evidenced by a new, shiny blue book, The Education Week Guide to K-12 Terminology. Peter Wood reviews the guide, in the process quoting a friend who (referring to one particularly stupid fad, “21st century skills”) notes the extent to which such ”progressive” theories and catchwords have mindlessly spread (in this case to business schools):

“Of the numerous dumb ideas to float through k-12 education since the late 1980s, 21st century skills might very well be the dumbest of all. It used to be that just the teachers unions and ed school dunces pushed this stuff. Now, the B-school jargon has fused with the Ed-school jargon–making a new hybrid super jargon.”