Scrutiny of her doctoral dissertation will
make ‘Dr. Jill Biden’ wish she had
stuck with ‘Mrs. Biden’
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
12/17/2020 7:55:25 AM
The real scandal around Joe Biden’s second wife wanting to be called “Dr. Jill Biden” is not that people like Whoopi Goldberg incorrectly assume that she is a physician and recommend her for the position of surgeon general. The real scandal is that the title is handed out to people who can’t produce scholarly work, as exemplified by the pathetic “dissertation/executive position paper” that Jill Biden “submitted to the Faculty of the University of Delaware in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education with a major in Educational Leadership.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/17/2020 8:10:05 AM (No. 634474)
I read her Dissertation...It is a desert in the middle of intelligent prose...a 6th grader could have been the author. She plagiarized much (in quotes) with no attribution, had less than first grade math errors and made statements so obvious a moron could understand. What I don't understand (I really do given suck-up politics) is how the other PhD's (Piled Higher and Deeper) idiots didn't throw the paper in the trash or set it on fire with her watching. Doctor, Yea, right, she has skill talking Pervert Joe into being her 'thing'.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
padiva 12/17/2020 8:26:32 AM (No. 634492)
How to keep students at a community college?
Expect them to do the work to pass each course.
Where is my doctorate?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/17/2020 8:41:29 AM (No. 634511)
Mrs. Biden's degree is just another example of failure in the field of Education - and it its own credentialing no less. But more importantly it represents the intellectual failure or parody of real intellectual achievement in many of our non-stem University graduate programs - and this is not a recent phenomena. Forty years ago I attended the grad exercise of a nursing program and in reading the program I remember seeing a thesis entitled, 'How Patients Feel about Rectal Thermometry Versus Oral Temperature Measurements'. Other titles reflected similar trivial exercises as meeting the requirements for a Doctorate in Nursing. I don't wish to disparage all nursing science degrees as representing such silliness. But there IS a reason that physicians are entitled to their honorific of 'Doctor'.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mathman 12/17/2020 8:46:39 AM (No. 634519)
I remember high school. I had to put quotes within quotation marks, and footnote them. I had to start each paragraph with a topic sentence, and then support the sentence with several additional sentences. I had to avoid grammatical errors. There had to be an introduction, stating what I was going to demonstrate. There had to be a concluding paragraph, in which I summarized what I had said. My papers came home heavy, as the red ink covered many of the pages, calling for extensive revision.
I remember my dissertation. I had to assert and prove something not previously proved. The thesis had to lead in a new direction. All applicable prior work had to be referenced and footnoted. I then had to defend that sucker before a panel of THREE faculty math professors. In speaking with them I had to defend not only my own work, but the work which had preceded me in Algebraic Topology.
I don't call them Doctors, because we used Professor instead. Alas the work was superseded by another mathematician who went in a different direction, but my work still stands, unchallenged.
None of the above applies to the "work" of Dr Biden. If she deserves any award at all, it would be for cliches per paragraph. But why not just give up and call her "Excellency"?
That's what Kissinger expected.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/17/2020 8:47:54 AM (No. 634521)
"Dr." Jill's work is so vapid and illiterate that only an Ivy League intellectual can appreciate it.
Her "Ed.D." is just another tin medal on the chest of a Nicaraguan colonel. Worthless and laughable.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 12/17/2020 8:48:08 AM (No. 634522)
Your IQ will actually decline after reading her “dissertation.” I believe the only schools at Harvard that are essentially non-competitive are The Divinity School and yes, the School of Education, so you can imagine how challenging Delaware must be to get into and graduate from...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cThree 12/17/2020 8:53:39 AM (No. 634533)
Lifson is right (quoting Kyle Smith) that Dr. Jill, the wife of the U.S. Senator for some 30 years at the time, could've submitted a grocery list on the back of a used envelop and received a doctorate from the University of Delaware.
But a poorly hidden secret is that higher education for "educators" is slop. An education major at the undergraduate level is a joke, and the quality doesn't improve even through the doctorate level.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/17/2020 9:17:20 AM (No. 634557)
What's with this parade of Democrat First Ladies From Hell? Hillary, Moose and now this dingbat?
Jackie was highly overrated, but in comparison with what came later...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hermoine 12/17/2020 9:23:05 AM (No. 634564)
I love all of this scrutiny AFTER THE FACT.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 12/17/2020 9:24:55 AM (No. 634565)
So she has an EdD and wants to be called 'Doctor'. Terry Bradshaw has a PhD (LA Tech) but doesn't demand to be called Dr. Bradshaw. His degree is honorary which I beat required more intellectual achievement by Terry than "Dr." Jill's required.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kiwinews 12/17/2020 9:30:06 AM (No. 634574)
Phi Beta Kappa member Condoleeza Rice has a Phd. Back during the Bush Administration, I once wrote to a female writer at the Washington Post making the exact argument about women's academic titles not being used, that Henry Kissinger was routinely referred to as Dr. Kissinger, why not Secretary of State "Dr. Rice"? Back THEN the WaPo replied, "It's not in our style book." My, my how times have changed.
As to the quality of Ms Biden's academic work, you can see why smarter politicians lock that stuff up tight tight tight before running for office. Did any one ever manage to get Hillary or Barry's masters papers out of the vaults?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/17/2020 9:31:44 AM (No. 634577)
Jeez, now who's the poor schmuck who's going to have to break the news to Whoopi that Jill's not a real "doctor doctor"?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
pmcclure 12/17/2020 9:48:40 AM (No. 634591)
In other words, she's a perfect match for Traitor Joe intellectually.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 12/17/2020 10:09:30 AM (No. 634613)
This story brings brings back memories of the fake MBA awarded to Joe Manchin’s daughter. The point is, did creepy Joe route political pork to the University of Delaware in exchange for Jill’s “doctorate?”
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/17/2020 10:09:31 AM (No. 634614)
Obama was much smarter, No one can see his College accreditation.
He called himself a Professor when he was merely a lecturer.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
czechlist 12/17/2020 10:27:11 AM (No. 634628)
The first sentence of the first paragraph of her "dissertation" on education
contains a mis-spelling: undeserved when underserved is obviously intended. It I all so obvious she was granted her Doctorate not on merit but on marriage.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
czechlist 12/17/2020 10:35:01 AM (No. 634636)
Apology for an additional comment but I am flawed as well. It was the second sentence. I also meant to add that it is ironic that her husband should name "Comma - la" to be his Veep as Dr. Jill's paper is filled with commas.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
wangbuster 12/17/2020 10:50:29 AM (No. 634653)
Dr. Joke
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/17/2020 10:55:23 AM (No. 634661)
Oh. please...academic credentials are dime a dozen, for sale at a website or on a matchook cover near you. My favorites are those Doctor of Divinity "degrees" awarded by the University of the Burning Cross and Holy Cow in Somewhere Tennessee. The recipients get a suitable for framing "diploma" and the title "Doctor", which they insist on being appended to their names in all social occasions. Hey, did you know you can become a Lord or Lady in Scotland for $25? No, really.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MargaretM. 12/17/2020 11:11:12 AM (No. 634671)
I read the first part of her dissertation up to and including the "developmental" students. Actually, I found the history of junior/community colleges interesting. I think that community colleges are a good idea for the bright student with "grit" (Margaret Thatcher's term) who can't afford to go away to college.
That said, I need to tell of my experience as a two-time counselor-screener for incoming students at my local community college. A neighbor asked me to perform this service, so I did. The job was to determine whether the student should see a counselor or a professor. Believe it or not, the decision required a computer-generated answer. This necessitated training!
The process was actually fairly pleasant. Most students just needed a decision and off they went. What was interesting was that a fair number of incoming black girls arrived with their mothers, both of whom had an attitude. No amount of smiles or friendliness changed the attitude. What I noticed was that these same girls were all taking remedial English and math. I wondered as the days wore on why they were taking courses that should have been covered in the four years of high school.
Then I realized that they were probably just "attending college" to enable them to continue to receive some form of government aid so that they didn't have to find a real job. Maybe I'm wrong, but they didn't seem like eager learners intent on a brighter future.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/17/2020 11:18:51 AM (No. 634678)
What is maddening is how Jill Biden's Ed.D degree has been compared to an MBA, which I happen to have and worked my posterior off to earn going to night school. I gave up 3-4 evenings a week going to class after working 9-hour days. I took short naps in my car in the parking lot of the University, and often didn't get home from class until after 10 p.m., only to have to get up at 4:30 to go to work the next day. I also gave up weekends and one summer reading assignments, writing papers, doing group projects, studying for exams and one semester, frequent meetings with a local oil company to do an in-depth analysis of their business operations. Had I produced a paper like Jill Biden's, I would not have passed the course.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HotRod 12/17/2020 12:01:42 PM (No. 634705)
I suspect that the University got a nice ''donation'' around the time that Jill got her PhD. Money counts as much as brains, in some cases!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 12/17/2020 12:53:23 PM (No. 634758)
EdD's are a semi-joke to begin with. Jill Biden is a total joke, and I agree with the headline....she is going to rue the day she insisted on a inflated, exaggerated title to stroke her inflated, massive ego. I have already read excerpts of her work, and it is embarrassingly low brow nonsense, written at the skill level of an untalented, C-grade HS sophomore.
But this sort of unskilled nonsense is what is passed off as "doctoral level work" in Education departments, and is the reason that knowledgeable people roll their eyes at EdD degrees, knowing that the degrees are pretty much a joke, not remotely on par with any hard science/tech PhDs.
When I went to college in the 70s, there were two groups of students who studied Education. The first group were those who were genuinely interested in teaching, but the second was a very large component who were those students who had found several other majors too difficult, too daunting, too demanding, or beyond their mental abilities. Even college sophomores in the 70s snickered behind the backs of the Education majors.
Two friends, after retirement, decided to teach HS and had to take courses in Education in college to get credentialed. Both told me that they had to compartmentalize what was taught at the Education schools. They needed to remember it long enough to pass the test and get credentials, but isolate it so that "that garbage" (the term used by one of them) didn't actually infect their teaching methods. One taught history, the other math.
All that said, I have one sister-in-law who is a retired Georgia teacher - very good, smart and dedicated. And I worked with one really good teacher for 3 years in the classroom, teaching science to her students twice a week. She became a friend, even vacationing with us. She was eventually driven out of teaching by the rules frustrating her ability to properly teach, due to the interference by incompetent school bureaucrats with Education degrees, probably EdDs. There are, or at least were, a portion of good teachers - but they are getting fewer and fewer, by design, I judge.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/17/2020 1:03:13 PM (No. 634774)
Now I'm curious and will be sure to look up Jill's masterpiece and read it. Nothing reveals a person's intelligence, education and clarity of thinking (or lack thereof) than a piece of unedited writing on a topic a bit more serious than the habits of their cat or why climate change is going to kill us. Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis was my first look at her qualifications and I found a middle school outlook on the boring topic of, what else, racism. It's disheartening to be reminded often that racism still defines her role in life, not to mention that of Tinkerbelle, her wonderful mate.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/17/2020 1:13:35 PM (No. 634781)
Changes are the Bidens, the “Big Guy” and the “Doctor” could give a hoot about what the world thinks about their bogus status symbols, as in the end, it looks today like they are going to be relaxing in the White House, until the leftist and liberal Democrats pull the plug, and flush the “Big Guy” into some five star rest home in favor of the Democrat socialist Harris taking over, all in accordance with a longstanding Democrat plan.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
kiwinews 12/17/2020 1:53:32 PM (No. 634806)
Just goes to prove her most important degree is not the Ed.D but her good, old fashion MRS.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
GO3 12/17/2020 2:46:28 PM (No. 634852)
Ed.Ds are just punching the ticket to get a Superintendent’s job or a gig at the state education agency, nothing more. Ed.Ds who fail in that endeavor end up being consultants or manning an office at region doing make work involving some obscure state program.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 12/17/2020 3:56:39 PM (No. 634898)
oh. I thought the EdD was for "Eldercare, Dementia, specialty".
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