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Textbook plagiarism
Ouch! One of the major textbook publishers has a minor embarrassment over a case of self-plagiarism. According to the once-formidable, now reduced United Press International: Textbook similarities an...
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A plagiarism how-to
Back in May, Alex Halavais at A Thaumaturgical Compendium offered advice on how to plagiarize to avoid detection. Of course, it also lets the cat out of the bag on how to detect such plagiarism, which...
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Twisting history still: D. James Kennedy
Voodoo history just will not die. Several years ago I caught the tail end of a television program featuring the Rev. D. James Kennedy railing against evolution and especially Charles Darwin. What...
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Evangelism vs. scholarship: Bible study in public schools
Last year the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) published a revealing study showing that most curricula for Bible study in public schools promote Christian faith more than they study the Bible. The study was...
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Hard Work (and cheating)
Good and careful consideration of cheating in school, especially with regard to different disciplines in college, in a post at Aude Sapere*. That post is well written, very thought provoking, and well...
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For the record: Pearceys’ slam at Judge Jones unwarranted
Rick and Nancy Pearcey — she the author of Christian best-seller Total Truth — have a blog called Pro-Existence. A few days ago I stumbled across the blog because they quoted me : Praise: “University...
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Chuck Colson hoaxed, or hoaxing; you should act
Chuck Colson claims to have found God, while in prison, and changed his ways. He’s got a newspaper column and radio feature called “Breakpoint” which generally covers issues at least tangentially...
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A little plagiarism, a little book
“Plagiarize! Plagiarize!//Don’t let anything evade your eyes!”Tom Lehrer, Lobachevsky “Oh, he just stole from me. I steal from everybody.” Attributed to Woody Guthrie by Pete Seeger (Together, with...
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Grand music hoax: Plagiarist confesses
A fascinating, tragic hoax has unraveled in the classical music world. Dozens of performances by relatively unknown — but great — pianists were pirated, credited to a great pianist dying of cancer, and...
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Plagiarism would have been the more noble course
Coulter chose the ignoble coarse. (No, that’s not misspelled.)
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Typewriter of the Moment: Legal clip art for the classroom
Image from the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT): Royal typewriter, 1919. Source: Emory Adams, The New Knowledge Library (Chicago: The S. A....
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Internet search tips from Google, on posters
Have you tried out Google for Educators? Google is a powerful search tool that is way under-utilized by most of us. Working with students, I constantly find they have difficulty using Google or any...
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Even more on Odessa Bible class case
Oh, and, there’s more. Also see Ed Brayton’s posts here: New Developments in Odessa Case Historical Ignorance on NCBCPS Website Liberty Legal Institute to Defend Odessa Suit Jewish Teacher in Odessa...
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Intelligent designers plagiarize Harvard film
Ms. Smith at ERV caught Bill Dembski of the Discovery Institute looking for all the world as if he’s plagiarizing a video produced at Harvard showing the inner workings of a cell in animation. She’s...
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Worried about plagiarism? You don’t know the half of it
Larry Lessig, speaking at TED, makes the case for kids who use stuff borrowed from others in their classroom presentations. First, this speech should open your eyes to the danger of our only...
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Embarrassing lure of creationism
You know the syndrome: Someone is caught in a scandal relating to sex, and then they take an offer to pose nude for pornography, and end up merely as a naked embarrassment to everybody. Same syndrome,...
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Oregon claims ownership of laws, asserts copyright
The comments at Boing-Boing are a lot smarter than the action by Oregon. Oregon mailed cease and desist letters to on-line providers of the texts of Oregon laws. No, not to the big, hugely for-profit...
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Imitation is the sincerest form . . . hey, wait a minute!
You need to go to the site to see the comparison. A blog on design issues (among other things), the View from 32, has a neat interactive image that shows the campaign website for Les Otten, a...
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Inspiration for the first day of school, part 2 – Taylor Mali, and “What do...
It ain’t easy being a teacher. Newsweek puts you on the cover, saying you need to be fired. Texas Gov. Rick Perry says you don’t need job security, as if getting additional money for teacher salaries...
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Ethics in climate science: How do we know what we know?
It’s almost an arcane fight, but it’s an important one — if you’re going to discuss climate science and the policies required to clean up pollution that causes destruction of our planet, can we at...
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