Chug chug chug…
SafeAssignment (the plagiarism-checking software my institution uses) is back to checking papers, albeit slowly. I suspect their client list grew more quickly than their capacity, but the problems are irritating to me as a faculty member.
The ‘Wild West of entrepreneurs’
In today’s New York Times, a report on the borderline ethics of NCLB-funded tutoring companies. This is on top of the failure to hold tutoring companies accountable for actual instruction. So when will accountability stop being a double-standard game where private players are assumed to be above accountability?