Jill Biden’s Garbage Dissertation,
Explained
National Review,
by
Kyle Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Mauigirl,
12/19/2020 12:11:39 AM
To call Jill Biden’s dissertation thin gruel is an insult to gruel. Whatever meager substance puddled in Bob Cratchit’s miserable bowl at mealtime was a bountiful feast compared with this paper. I wrote yesterday about the problems with this capstone project, the foundation of her Ed.D. degree and of the insistence of so many in recent days that we must call her “Dr.”
Mrs. Biden’s only original research consists of interviews with two — that’s right, two — ex-students and a few colleagues at Delaware Technical Community College, where she used to teach, plus the results of a vacuous questionnaire she wrote that was returned
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/19/2020 12:39:11 AM (No. 636083)
If this "dissertation" was instead a high school research paper, it would barely be worthy of a D+.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/19/2020 12:41:35 AM (No. 636086)
Jill is not very bright. But she is very ambitious.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/19/2020 1:17:53 AM (No. 636089)
I didn't realize PHD's were so easy to get. Maybe I should go for one to be called a "Dr."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 12/19/2020 1:30:06 AM (No. 636093)
Many years ago I taught college level Freshman Composition courses, so I am very familiar with the pain of reading through poorly written papers. I feel sorry for Kyle Smith having to read all 129 pages of Biden's drivel. It must have been excruciating.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snakeoil 12/19/2020 1:39:20 AM (No. 636096)
Doubt the DJ's literary masterpiece differs much from the other Ed.D. that are passed out. You have to have some type of title to make it in the education workplace. My Physical Education instructor in high school had one of those Ed.D. and we called him Doctor Push Up. At one time the Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Georgia area of specialization was Home Economics. Her papers were things like the Optimal Arrangement of Condiments on the Dining Room Table. She resented the science types belittling her academic credentials. Would be willing to bet the DJ probably knows which side of the table the salad fork goes on. I'll give her a pass and reserve all my venom for The Sniffer and The Snorter.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rtwngprof 12/19/2020 1:53:28 AM (No. 636098)
#3: She doesn't have a PhD. She has an Ed.D. Big difference.
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Thinking back many years to a good friend and mentor in grad school who worked on his doctorate while I was struggling to earn my MS (both of us were engineering students). After 3+ years of research he presented his dissertation (something to do with vortex shedding) which a renowned professor promptly shot down. It wasn't pretty, but several years later the professor came to the realization that he was incorrect in his approach, had the decency to contact my buddy, admit his mistake, and see to it that the degree was awarded.
And then I read this. Sounds like those very community college students on which she conducted her comprehensive and exhausting research put in more time and effort obtaining their associate degrees.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/19/2020 2:05:24 AM (No. 636102)
It doesn't take much in academia for a dissertation, judging by Jill and Mooch's.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NeverForget 12/19/2020 5:16:13 AM (No. 636123)
I'm sure Jill Biden's "dissertation" is a piece of garbage. But I'm not so sure Sleepy Joe or the Biden name had much to do with her being handed s doctoral degree in Education. I'm confident that there are tens of thousands of others who have "earned" the same degree with equally crappy work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jj1319 12/19/2020 6:02:55 AM (No. 636128)
Let's hope that Jill's neurosis doesn't catch on. I can't imagine addressing lawyers (doctor of Jurisprudence) with that title.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Petronius 12/19/2020 6:07:30 AM (No. 636130)
Our local school superintendent (whom I went to school with) has an Ed.D. and goes by the title of "Doctor". The bulletins he sends out are often laden with misspellings and grammatical errors, so I do not believe the standards for an Ed.D. are what are normally expected of someone seeking a doctorate in other areas.
He is better however than another one of our schoolmates who also earned an Ed.D., became a school superintendent in a nearby town and then was fired for bringing young girls into his office, offering them liquor and cocaine, and then trying to have sex with them. A title before one's name is no guarantee of the quality of the person holding it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
walcb 12/19/2020 6:25:04 AM (No. 636134)
At least it appears she didn't plagiarize.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mathman 12/19/2020 6:28:13 AM (No. 636135)
I remember Delaware Tech. I taught high school in Bethesda, MD. My male students wanted DT because...it was close to the surf!
Now there's a reason to choose a school!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/19/2020 6:48:21 AM (No. 636139)
#12, I can't ascertain that, since the style/format she used is unknown to me. And remember, she taught in the English Department.
Somewhere in the middle of her muddled writing, she says the English Department uses the MLA format for students, but she proposes a change to APA. I personally hate APA format, and APA says the format should not be used for theses and dissertations.
A footnote should tell you where the cite came from, so that you can check for accuracy and context. A direct quote must be cited properly, or it is plagiarism. (See Biden, Joseph Robinette, Class of 1968, Syracuse University College of Law)
Adulterous Jill, in her 'dissertation,' offers a series of end notes. Her doctoral committee members had the obligation to correct her on that.
The content, itself, could have been of interest. She could have constructed a survey instrument, administered it to the three community colleges in Delaware, and included lots of demographic information.
Then she could have done a multivariate analysis of the student population, which would lead to future research, which is almost always noted at the final chapter. She skipped that.
The pitiful nature of her dissertation tells me more about the University of Delaware than it does about Adulterous Jill. And her work is dangerous. Dementia Jo, blowing air through his bottom teeth in the odd way he does that, spoke during the campaign about the need for every school to have a psychologist. He got that from Jill. The problem is that he believes school psychologists practice therapy. They do not. The test and evaluate.
His ignorance, and Adulterous Jill's meddling, will, I predict, result in the expansion of school psychologist staffing. The money will be wasted.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
philsner 12/19/2020 7:45:49 AM (No. 636167)
National Review has a paywall? No thanks.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lazyman 12/19/2020 7:55:43 AM (No. 636174)
She is claiming that to improve education "leadership" is the bottom line. She should explain how hiring and promotions based on skin color, rather than merit, can possibly achieve that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
edgar 12/19/2020 7:56:51 AM (No. 636176)
FTA, "Jill Biden looks like yet another member of the Biden family who successfully leveraged the family name to obtain things of value that otherwise would have lain far beyond the reach of someone of such meager talents."
That sentence pretty much nails it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/19/2020 8:10:00 AM (No. 636181)
And people wonder how the field of education became a wasteland of psycho-babble. Look no further than “Doctor” Jill Biden. Surprised she doesn’t use her maiden name.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jimboscott 12/19/2020 8:16:27 AM (No. 636183)
Pay wall
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
nhveritas 12/19/2020 8:25:51 AM (No. 636192)
An excellent dissection of a typical piled higher and deeper (PhD) that is rampant in the swamp culture.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
GO3 12/19/2020 8:37:18 AM (No. 636198)
Frau Doktor's problem in research reflects the larger student resistance to doing anything related to research in general. Trying to get students just to crack open their books and read a chapter to answer questions is a major effort. Using the power of the internet, literally an electronic web to link from one source to another is low on the priority behind Call of Duty, Fakebook, and Pentagram. In a graduate course in biology, the prof assigned the typical "read the chapter and answer the questions at the end" type of assignments in addition to more extensive work. These were gimme points. Amazingly, towards the end of the semester, some students whined about getting a C instead of a B and couldn't understand that ignoring the small assignments led to their subpar performance.
Also agree with #14. School psychologists do diagnostic work and make recommendations to school teacher and administrative boards as to accommodations for certain students IAW state law. They do not do therapy.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/19/2020 9:48:51 AM (No. 636276)
By now, this thin-skinned fraud is regretting the day that she demanded, "Call me Doctor." She won't draw nearly the laughs that Joe is going to get when he starts saying, "Call me President."
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/19/2020 9:56:50 AM (No. 636289)
#13, I once chose a school because it was close to my out-of-state girlfriend. It would have been much smarter to choose the surf!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
wangbuster 12/19/2020 11:33:56 AM (No. 636398)
Dr. Joke
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
grampus 12/19/2020 12:00:51 PM (No. 636416)
Decades and decades ago, while working at the University of Michigan, I came across an E.D. dissertation from another Big Ten university that was titled "The Uses of 'and' in Children's Literature."
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
redraider 12/19/2020 12:49:00 PM (No. 636464)
If having mail addressed to "Dr. Jill" is all it takes to stroke her ego or soothe insecurity issues? Ummmmm........OK.
Expecting the rest of us to play along? Is asking a bit much.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/19/2020 1:50:31 PM (No. 636531)
Re: #20 - Perhaps you don't know the difference between a PhD and a EdD. There is no sin in that but there is no need to be insulting to the many actual PhDs who frequent this site. Essentially, Jill Biden did not even attempt a dissertation, intended to describe her original research Lin terms of hypothesis testing through data collection, analysis, and reporting in a standardized format but rather she assembled and submitted a shoddy, over-blown book report.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
msliberty1937 12/19/2020 2:04:21 PM (No. 636542)
I endured part of the slobberfest interview JJ had with the-never-ever-remotely-funny Colbert to learn that not only did Dr J earn an Ed.D but several master's as well. Straight from the mouth of her hubby which went unchallenged... so it must be true. Right?
Can anyone shed more light on this?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/20/2020 10:25:26 AM (No. 637091)
Garbage in, Garbage out...Tripe filled 'Dissertation' equals a Tripe filled person.
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