It's an old dodge: asking people who were successful in the system to evaluate the merits of the system. When it comes to education, Clark Aldrich argues, the old dodge is alive and well. "We have to increasingly realize that the worst people to evaluate and shape research on schools are, in order:
- Current employees of the education system, or people being indirectly but significantly funded by academic institutions.
- The top 5% beneficiaries of the existing system. (I suspect there is no greater believer in academic Darwinism than President Obama.)
- The people whose skill-sets line up with narrow skills actually taught at schools (such as journalists, who learned the craft of writing)
- PhD's and other people who's status, even identity, correlates with the validity of the current education system."
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