Articles by Michael Meidenbauer

Complete coverage: multimedia website Shorewood High School English teacher Mike Halloran taps the wall-mounted screen at the front of his class and shows his students how to upload their term papers. He turns back around, surveys the class with a devilish grin, and shows his students how effective the new software is at detecting plagiarism. […]

Mr. Van Duzor was nearly as good at quoting The Simpsons as he was at teaching sixth grade science. At every opportunity he would rattle off a relevant—and sometimes not so relevant—quotation to illustrate his point, sometimes mimicking the sophisticated prattle of Kelsey Grammer’s Sideshow Bob and sometimes shouting “doh!” when he dropped a beaker. […]