A Twitter thread:
Aaron Sibarium
@aaronsibarium
NEW: The dean of Michigan State's College of Education, Jerlando Jackson, plagiarized extensively over the course of his career, per a new complaint, raising questions about his fitness to lead one of the top teacher training programs in the country.
The complaint includes nearly 40 examples of plagiarism that span nine of Jackson’s papers, including his Ph.D. thesis, and range from single sentences to
full pages. ... In one 2002 paper, he lifts pages of material from Lorraine McDonnell, a political scientist at UCSB, and Richard Elmore, a professor at Harvard’s Grad School of Education, without attribution, keeping the order of their sentences while swapping out synonyms and details. ...
The complaint raises serious questions about the academic standards at one of the top education schools in the nation, which has topped the U.S. News & World Report rankings of K-12 teacher education for 30 years straight. ...
Thursday’s complaint follows a string of plagiarism allegations against prominent university officials, including former Harvard president Claudine Gay and UMD president Darryll Pines. Other allegations have targeted diversity deans at Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA. ...
[Here's the shocker]: Before arriving at Michigan State in 2022, Jackson led the department of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There
he founded the Equity and Inclusion Laboratory, which conducts research on "equitable and inclusive learning." ...
Full X thread at
https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1843666508918206897
What, me worry?