| Melania Trump's speech was run through a plagiarism checker Posted: 19 Jul 2016 04:07 PM PDT  College students, take note: if you plagiarize, people will notice. Melania Trump spoke during the Republican National Convention on Monday night, leaving some viewers with a sense of déjà vu. SEE ALSO: 11 totally real earlier drafts of Melania Trump's speech Following a tweet from journalist Jarrett Hill, many called out Trump on blatantly plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 speech from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Looking at the speeches side by side, they are shockingly similar. The Washingtonian ran the transcripts of the suspicious paragraphs from Trump's speech through a comparison plagiarism checker, Small SEO Tools. The results, perhaps predictably, showed that nearly half of the speech was taken directly from Obama's speech. "The first half of the excerpt came in at 46 percent non-unique, while the next few sentences registered at 44 percent non-unique," wrote The Washingtonian. Mashable also ran the transcripts through the checker, and came up with similar results. The first excerpt, however, came up as 47 percent non-unique. Image: Small seo tools According to The Washingtonian , citing the plagiarism checker TurnItIn.com, "the likelihood that a 16-word match is 'just a coincidence' is less than 1 in a trillion. Melania Trump's longest match? 23 words." This particular type of plagiarism is known as "clone plagiarism," in which the copier lifts words and phrases verbatim from another source. College professors agree that this kind of copying is not acceptable. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies and co-chairwoman of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, told USA Today, "if I were reading a student paper and two paragraphs were lifted almost verbatim, I would turn the student into the dean and then he or she would decide the student's fate in terms of the college." Still, Team Trump is denying all accusations about the speech, citing everything from My Little Pony to directly blaming Hillary Clinton for the backlash. Still, let's hope Team Trump doesn't turn in any college papers. BONUS: Find Doc Brown in a Sea of Bernie Sanders
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| Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked: ministry official Posted: 19 Jul 2016 08:25 AM PDT Turkey's education ministry has revoked the licenses of 21,000 teachers working in private institutions, an official at the ministry told Reuters on Tuesday, part of an expanding government crackdown following a failed coup attempt. The announcement came shortly after a report that the High Education Board had ordered the resignation of 1,577 deans at all universities across Turkey. "The licenses of 21,000 teachers working in privately-run institutions have been canceled. |
| Embattled Portland, Oregon, superintendent steps down Posted: 18 Jul 2016 07:06 PM PDT PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Embattled in controversy over high lead levels found in water sources at two schools, Portland Public Schools Superintendent Carole Smith said Monday she is stepping down effective immediately. |
