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July 20, 2005

Point Well Taken - 07/20/05: Useful Names for Education Grants

by Ferdinand T Cat

Yesterday I discussed the Students Accumulating New Knowledge Optimizing Future Accomplishment Initiative, which is a pilot program in which African-American students are given books written in Ebonics in order to help them become more interested in staying in school. I was struck by the fact that the title of the program contained absolutely no useful information. Since the name of the program doesn't collapse to a pronounceable acronym, the meaningless name looks suspicious. As a service, I would like to offer up into the public domain several meaningless names that do have simple acronyms. These names can be used on education grants without raising a red flag that the program is just another money-grubbing scam.

  • Student Teacher Unity Program for Instructional Development
  • Forum to Advance Knowledge and Education
  • Global Reform for Educational Excellence and Development
  • Intellectual Discipline for Improved Organization in Teaching
  • Reading Improvement Program for Optimizing Future Faculty
  • Student Curriculum for Advanced Measurement

Use these names on your next flurry of grant applications, and you can be sure the voters will have no doubt about what's really going on.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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Comments

Don't forget:

Student Heuristic Improvement Techniques


All this alphabet soup certainly gives me the Student Heuristic Improvement Techniques.


Posted by: Greg at July 20, 2005 9:45 AM

I read somewhere that SANKOFAI was an African word for something. Someone check wit Lt.Uhuru.


Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at July 20, 2005 11:52 AM

According to http://www.sankofa.com, "sankofa" is supposed to be an Akan word that means "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today." I'm not a linguist, but I'm guessing that the "I" on the end changes the meaning to "We must go out and get more money to hire more administrators, which has helped us to be who we are today."


Posted by: Ferdy Author Profile Page at July 20, 2005 4:11 PM

Does that mean students not in this program are not accumulating new knowledge?

Judging by public schools, I would guess yes.


Posted by: Pluto at July 20, 2005 4:27 PM

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