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[quote=Anonymous]There are any awful lot of BS Education programs out there.  An Ed D is NOT the same as a PhD.  The emphasis is on practical, applied knowledge rather than the creation of new knowledge. 
A lot of schools have a dumbed down curriculum for the Ed D majors -- an easier statistics course.  I've seen universities where there is a rigid template for the Ed D "dissertation" where there is a great deal of hand holding (i.e.  In this section, explain why you chose your variables).  Lots of schools crank out a phenomenal number of Ed D degrees every year, as opposed to more selective PhD degrees where an advisor can decide how many to take on and can be highly selective in terms of who they decide to supervise.

In America in general however there is a devaluing of the PhD and Ed D as a credential because of all the online diploma mills which have no quality control.  Many of them take all of the applicants, and allow people to take and retake courses that they fail multiple times, don't actually have comprehensive exams, and don't actually care WHO writes the dissertation as long as it's submitted.

I interviewed with one of those places a while ago just to see what they were offering and they admitted that people like third world dictators will assign a staff member to take all the courses and write the dissertation, so that the wealthy autocrat can claim to be a 'doctor'.

The whole educational sham is starting to be like the last days of the former Soviet Union when everyone was an 'engineer', and people had multiple graduate degrees but there were no jobs and no money.  Everyone in America seems to have bought into this myth that more education will increase wages when in many professions there are nearly no good paying jobs. [/quote]

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