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The Web is going social. And now it seems that plagiarism might be heading that way, too.

A new study found that social and user-generated Web sites are the most popular sources for student copying. Academic sites come in second, while paper mills and cheat sites are third.

A report on the findings was released today by iParadigms, creator of Turnitin, a popular plagiarism-detection service that takes uploaded student papers and checks them against various databases to pinpoint unoriginal content. For its study, the company analyzed 40 million papers submitted by high school and college students over a 10-month period.

“It shows that plagiarism in sourcing work is going the way that everything else in the world is going,” says Chris Harrick, vice president of marketing at Turnitin. “People are relying more on their peers than on experts.”

But the findings come with a big caveat: Turnitin detects “matched content,” not necessarily plagiarism. In other words, the software will flag material from a paper mill, but it will also flag legitimate stuff that is properly cited and attributed. The company leaves it…

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• Teaching About Labor Issues and the Wisconsin Worker Fight Back

  Finding good resources to teach kids about working-class issues and labor history is difficult, so am very happy to find this excellent compilation.

  tags: labor Children’s literature social class

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Education and Class

• The New Poor – For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid – NYTimes.com

  Education as Exploitation

  “At institutions that train students for careers in areas like health care, computers and food service, enrollments are soaring as people anxious about weak job prospects borrow aggressively to pay tuition that can exceed $ 30,000 a year.

  But the profits have come at substantial taxpayer expense while often delivering dubious benefits to students, according to academics and advocates for greater oversight of financial aid. Critics say many schools exaggerate the value of their degree programs, selling young people on dreams of middle-class wages while setting them up for default on untenable debts, low-wage work and a struggle to avoid poverty. And the schools are harvesting growing federal student aid dollars, including Pell grants awarded to low-income students. “

  tags: social class

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Education and Class

• Poll Finds Tea Party Anger Rooted in Issues of Class – NYTimes.com

  “The overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters say Mr. Obama does not share the values most Americans live by, and that he does not understand the problems of people like themselves. More than half say the policies of the administration favor the poor, and 25 percent, compared with 11 percent of the general public, think that the administration favors blacks over whites. They are more likely than the general public, and Republicans, to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people. “

  tags: social class

• Economic Scene – Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer. – NYTimes.com

  Poor and working class families portrayed as being on the dole on Fox News.

  tags: social class

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Education and Class