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Category Archives: Education
The Two Accusations
Nathan Cofnas’s case against Jason Arday contains two accusations that are easy to collapse into one. The first concerns authorship. Cofnas alleges extensive unattributed copying in Arday’s 2015 doctoral dissertation and in some later work. Those allegations can be investigated … Continue reading
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The Credentialing of Failure: Stephen Turner and the Convenient Beliefs of Elite Education Schools
Stephen Turner’s concept of convenient beliefs describes ideas that persist not because they are true but because they serve the professional interests of those who hold them. They sustain funding streams, protect institutional jurisdiction, and allow experts to claim moral … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Grok says: UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (Ed&IS) is a top-5 nationally ranked education school that merges the Department of Education (urban schooling, teacher prep, leadership) with the Department of Information Studies (library/informatics, digital equity, archival studies). … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Professional Authority
American professions do not primarily compete over who is most competent. They compete over who gets to define what requires their competence. High-status actors do not say they want power, prestige, or income. They say they are protecting the public, … Continue reading
Posted in America, Dentistry, Education, Law, Medicine, Professions, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychology
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Educational Outcomes Authority
American education high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power over data, prestige over interpretation, or control over what counts as success. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Public Education Authority
American public education high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power, prestige, or bureaucratic reach. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to equity, inclusion, and child welfare, loyalty to … Continue reading
NYT: In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money
The New York Times reported Sep. 11, 2022: The Hasidic Jewish community has long operated one of New York’s largest private schools on its own terms, resisting any outside scrutiny of how its students are faring. But in 2019, the … Continue reading
How LA’s Elite Private Schools View Each Other
Per Alliance Theory: The “Blue Chip” Academic Powerhouses Harvard‑Westlake School (Studio City / Beverly Hills) and Brentwood School are widely seen as the academic and social gold standard. They are known for intense college prep, competitive admissions, and Ivy League … Continue reading
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‘The same skills that made you a good student may make you a bad employee.’
I just read that claim. Hmm. Good grades and good things such as earning correlate. If I had to rate the statement as true or false, I’d say false. If the statement were true, however, how might it be true? … Continue reading
NYR: Adherents to Maria Montessori’s radical methods have extended from progressive parents to Benito Mussolini
From the New York Review: * From her earliest days at the university Montessori identified as a feminist and a socialist. She became secretary of the Association for Women, a group that lobbied for community education, female suffrage, a law … Continue reading
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