Erica Jacobs

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Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.

  

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Word of the Day

May 8, 9:10 PM
by Erica Jacobs, Education Examiner
 
 
dilatory--tending or intended to cause delay

This word of the day is also a Shakespearean quote: I abhor this dilatory sloth. (Henry VIII)
I have found students to be dilatory in the completion of their work, but I have also found that teachers are often dilatory in grading papers!


Topics: word , day , teachers , students , shakespeare
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