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

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:

Here 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.