The State of Education, in Deborah Gist’s own words


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I missed Deborah Gist’s speech at the State House tonight (read RI Future alum Dan McGowan’s coverage on WPRI here), but I did put the text of her speech into Wordle and it spit out this pretty neat word cloud of her remarks:

gist speech narrowHere are a few words you won’t see in the above graphic depiction of her speech, which I think belong in any talk about the state of education in Rhode Island:

  • achievement gap
  • NECAP
  • Common Core
  • 27 percent

A few other observations:

  • “Students” was the most prominent word, along with “Rhode Island”
  • “STEM” seem to have the same prominence as “learning”
  • “Technology” seems to have a greater prominence than “teachers”

I’d love to hear from our readers in the comments about what observations you all have about her speech, or this depiction of it.


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