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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most public school administrators have an Educational Doctorate not even the full Phd yet they insist on being called Dr. which is ridiculous. Their "doctorate" doesn't even require a dissertation, is 60 years and can be done on-line. It honestly should embarrass them to do this as no other real Phd insists on this.

Its easier because it is one of the "newer" types of degrees like hospitality management, or human resources. It was designed to provide some additional education for people working in public education. Degrees are only as good as the community conferring them so since education as a major attracts the lowest scoring students of any other major, you just are not getting the best and brightest.

Degrees like philosophy or art history have a deeper bench of scholarship and thus more rigorous requirements even though neither prepares you to do anything more than teach in a university or write esoteric books on the aspect of the field that you focused on. From an academic standpoint, they are more prestigious because they contribute to the furthering of human knowledge and academic community.

Education doctorates and Phds really contribute nothing to academia other than $$ for their degree so no prestige beyond their own circle of people in a public school. [/quote]
what is your background?  :roll: [/quote]

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