Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage Because
Her University of Delaware Dissertation Is Garbage
Kyle Smith
December 16, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/jill-biden-doctorate-garbage-because-212259558.html
Consider “Dr.” Jill Biden, who doesn’t even hold a Ph.D. but rather a lesser Ed.D., something of a joke in the academic world. President-elect Joe Biden once explained that his wife sought the degree purely for status reasons: “She said, ‘I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.’ That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,” Joe Biden has said.
Mrs. Biden wanted the credential for its own sake. As for its quality, well. She got it from the University of Delaware, whose ties to her husband, its most illustrious alumnus if you don’t count Joe Flacco, run so deep that it has a school of public policy named after him. That the University of Delaware would have rejected her 2006 dissertation as sloppy, poorly written, non-academic, and barely fit for a middle-school Social Studies classroom (all of which it is) when her husband had been representing its state in the U.S. Senate for more than three decades was about as likely as Tom Hagen telling Vito Corleone that his wife is a fat sow on payday.
The only risk to the University of Delaware was that it might strain its collective wrist in its rush to rubber-stamp her doctoral paper. Mrs. Biden could have turned in a quarter-a**ed excuse for a magazine article written at the level of Simple English Wikipedia and been heartily congratulated by the university for her towering mastery. Which is exactly what happened.
” First Lady Jill Biden’s problematic degree and her too-earnest desire to be addressed as “Doctor”
Seriously that entire family is just low level trash.
The EdD is a scam, a low-hurdle “doctorate” designed to allow teachers who can’t teach a path to become administrators with much higher pay and less accountability for results.
One would have to look long and hard to find more than one or two courses contained in any level of an ‘eddikashun’ degree that contains anything close to knowledge or scholarship.
And we see the results in our ‘publik skoolz’.
My apologies to the good and capable school teachers (not eddikators’) out there who are doing a good job...despite their degrees.
I have a good MBA, and most people I worked with and knew didn’t know that I had a Master’s degree.
Basically, the one and only time people, I didn’t know found out that I had a Master’s degree was after they told others and me to address them as Dr..
I replied, “No problem if you address me as Master based on my MBA.”
Most smiled and became semi human.
He taught doctoral candidates how to do the research to get their own doctorates.
He and many of his colleagues were WWII veterans. It's a shame to see what the academic world has become.
I have PhD... it’s out in the shed.
I taught in public schools for decades, and ran into more than a few EdD‘s.
Some got the degree just to move up in the ranks. I have no problem with that.
But the majority of them were, as the article states, dangerous. Permit me to explain why, from my point of view.
Every discipline has an accepted body of knowledge. Every chemist agrees that the helium atom has two protons. Every historian agrees that George Washington was a general. Etc. There might be some disagreements around the edges. For example, historians might not agree on Washington being a good general.
There is, however, one exception to all this. There is literally no accepted body of knowledge in education. Literally anything goes. Say whatever pops into your head, pick up your degree, and then go run a school district.
I suffered through a long series of EdD superintendents who upended everything as soon as they took over. Brand new leader, brand new fad.
The spiral curriculum is best. Then no, it’s not.
Labs are valuable. Then no, they’re not.
On and on it went.
He spends quite a bit of time on the EdDs and how they have damaged the university environment.
Whoopi’s ain’t bright enough to understand
I stopped long ago being polite about all Ed degrees. They are worthless pieces of paper to go along with worthless people. There is no politeness when dealing with the truth.
I have a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Harvard. I don’t have to insist on being called “Doctor”, because everyone of my professional associates calls me that, unless I say not to.
Jill biden, with her EdD and her garbage, ungrammatical thesis, should NOT be called Dr., obviously!!!!
Meanwhile, DR. Rand Paul is a REAL Doctor, as is his father, and nobody in the press ever refers to either of them as “Dr.”
Victor Hanson often repeats that EVERY bad policy idea in America originated at some university, the same universities grinding out these useless people with their useless degrees that eventually harm us all, especially when they are put in charge of indoctrinating our kids.
All this diversity and inclusiveness has rendered most college degrees and all the alphabet soup titles and certifications that go with them, meaningless.
Standards get dropped in order to graduate as many students as possible, enriching the colleges and flooding the workplaces with inadequate employees who do not even begin to measure up to the lofty resumes with the impressive academic credentials that got them hired in the first place.
Case in point, I have a personal experience that goes back some 25 years. It was the late 1990s and high tech was hungry for certified professionals.
The company I worked for at the time decided that they wanted all their technical people, including managers (which I was at the time), to have some "alphabet soup" certifications so that they could be printed on our business cards and put on our email signatures and whatnot. All to impress our clients and would-be clients and show them they were working with certified professionals (we were certified all right!).
So I signed up for a $10,000 night course for MCSE certification on Windows NT 4.0 at Boston University that my company mostly reimbursed me for. Mind you, I was a manager at the time and really had no need for any of this. It was all about having that MCSE badge to flash about and impress clients with on sales calls...EVEN OUR MANAGERS ARE CERTIFIED!
I was the very definition of a "paper MCSE". After nine months of night school, writing installation scripts, learning about what RAID backup systems are all about and a thousand other things I've long forgotten, it was time to take the exams and get certified...
To study for the exams (I think there were six of them in total), I collected a bookshelf worth of EXAM CRAM books and other study guides. Basically, I memorized the answers for any conceivable question that might pop up on the exams (all multiple choice) without necessarily understanding the underlying technology behind them.
Once I got that certification, I went back to my management job and requested a set of business cards with the coveted "Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer" printed under my name. Had I ever taken a technical job based solely on my MCSE, I would have been as lost as Joe Biden on an empty stage.
So yes, that story from 25 years ago illustrates perfectly the fraud behind these phony-baloney EdD "doctorate" degrees today - complete with AI assisted dissertation!
I'll call these people "doctors" but they better call me "engineer" in return!
Case in point, I have a personal example. Some 25 years ago, the company I worked for
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