Thursday, March 8, 2012

Margaret (teachers are lazy and soft on plagiarism) Wente:

Back from a nice long vacation, and still phoning it in.

Wente, March 2012: “It is in almost every respect a system built for another age,” writes education historian John Fleming (whose views were cited in The Province newspaper). The union, the government and the school trustees, in his view, are all anti-visionary, anti-technological and completely committed to the status quo.

Here’s her colleague Gary Mason reviewing Fleming’s book in the Globe a few months earlier.

Gary Mason, October, 2011: “It is in almost every respect a system built for another age,” Dr. Fleming writes… the union, the government and the school trustees – are anti-visionary, anti-technological and completely committed to the status quo.

And she recycles her own material from a few weeks ago:

Wente, March 2012: In Ontario during the same period, per pupil funding soared by 56 per cent, to $11,207.

Wente, Feb. 18, 2012: The combination of increased funding and declining enrolment means that per-pupil funding has soared by 56 per cent – from $7,201 to $11,207.

More here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

1 comment:

  1. I'm getting quite good at sensing when a new Wente piece is going to be featured here.

    In its own way, plagiarising a Globe colleague is a new low.

    I wrote to the Globe's "Public Editor" last month about the general situation. She replied that there had not been any "mistakes" for some time. I answered that there was obviously a difference between a mistake and a record of systematic plagiarism. No reply. Have now emailed her a link to this post.

    Keep up the good work, whoever you are!

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