David Labaree
Professor, Stanford University
David F Labaree is Lee L Jacks professor (emeritus) at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is the former president of the History of Education Society and former vice president of the American Educational Research Association. His most recent book is A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education (2017).
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Pluck versus luck
Meritocracy emphasises the power of the individual to overcome obstacles, but the real story is quite a different one
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Gold among the dross
Academic research in the US is unplanned, exploitative and driven by a lust for glory. The result is the envy of the world
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The five-paragraph fetish
Writing essays by a formula was meant to be a step on the way. Now it’s the stifling goal for student and scholar alike
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An unlikely triumph
In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?
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