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Two Words - Background. Check.
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The new Superintendent of Schools for New London, CT allegedly plagiarized 10 paragraphs on his job application. He also allegedly faked his credentials, claiming a Ph.D. from Stanford he doesn't really have and another from a "degree mill." He is one of a bunch of superintendents at school systems in New England recently caught in this kind of thing. The question is how he got so far as to get hired (with the Board of Ed approving him in a unanimous vote). Does nobody actually check these things? And there's another issue: I'm finding an increasingly cavalier attitude, especially among young adults, towards plagiarizing stuff. I find some young writers assume it's okay to copy and paste something from the Internet (especially Wikipedia), change a word or two, and submit it. Are we in an era when cheating and theft are okay because "everyone else does it"? (Boston Globe)
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