Doctoral Dysfunction — Many Doctoral Students Today Tend to Fall into One of Two Disturbing Categories: Academic Technicians or Justice Warriors

This piece was published in Inside Higher Ed in June, 2020.  Here's a link to the original. Doctoral Dysfunction Many doctoral students today are tending to fall into one of two disturbing categories: academic technician or justice warrior, writes David F. Labaree. David F. Labaree June 18, 2020 After nearly 40 years as a university …

Writing Class Week 8

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Sermon on Educational Research

This is a piece I published in 2012, drawing on my experience over the years working with doctoral students in education.  The advice, basically, is to approach your apprenticeship in educational research doing the opposite of what everyone else tells you to do.  Enjoy. A Sermon on Educational Research David F. Labaree Published in 2012 …

Writing Class Week 7

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The Lure of Statistics for Educational Researchers

This is a paper I published Educational Theory back in 2011 about the factors shaping the rise of quantification in education research.  It seems relevant to a lot of  issues in the field educational policy.    The Lure of Statistics for Educational Researchers by David F. Labaree Published 2011 in Educational Theory, 61:6 Philosophy is …

Writing Class Week 6

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An Unlikely Triumph: How US Higher Education Went from Rags in the 19th Century to Riches in the 20th

This is a piece I published in Aeon in October, 2017.  It provides an overview of my book that came out that year, "A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education (University of Chicago Press). From the perspective of 19th-century visitors to the United States, the country’s system of higher education was a …

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