...scholarship and inquiry. What is the value of expertise? Who owns knowledge? Should we trust the "wisdom of crowds" or fear the mob?

In the workaday world of elementary and secondary education, however, these philosophical musings seem less to the point. The questions are simpler: Can an online encyclopedia that's edited by anyone, and thus no one, be trusted as a credible information source?...

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