Posted on 08/23/2010 7:58:03 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Michigan State University professor Sharif Shakrani was read an expert's quote that appeared on the eighth page of his study the Mackinac Center says appears to be plagiarized.
Shakrani said he got the two-sentence quote through his research online. But the study doesn't say where he found that quote.
The two-sentence quote was part of more than 300 words that appear to have been taken virtually word-for-word from a Stateline.org March 22, 2010, article entitled, "Still too many schools?"
Except for a few very minor alterations, a three-paragraph chunk of the Stateline.org piece appeared in the MSU study. Some examples of the minor changes included the word "the" being eliminated from one sentence. The word "can't" was changed to "cannot" inside the unattributed two-sentence quotation from the expert.
Shakrani, a senior scholar at the Education Policy Center who once served as the co-director, was asked where he got that quote.
"It was found in more than one report," Shakrani said, adding he got it while researching online...
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Sharif Shakrani... said he got the two-sentence quote through his research online... The two-sentence quote was part of more than 300 words that appear to have been taken virtually word-for-word from a Stateline.org March 22, 2010, article entitled, "Still too many schools?" ...examples of the minor changes included the word "the" being eliminated from one sentence. The word "can't" was changed to "cannot" ...Shakrani, a senior scholar at the Education Policy Center who once served as the co-director...
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