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Academic Cheating Scandal

Cheating -- It's Not Just for Kids

Victor Dorff | Posted 05.15.2013 | Los Angeles
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Victor Dorff

What we are teaching is that integrity is an acceptable casualty in the push for a better education system, and that's the wrong lesson.

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Desperate Kid Cheats Under Pressure -- What Else Is New?

Victor Dorff | Posted 04.16.2013 | College
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Victor Dorff

"Pressure" is inevitable for students today. The question is, how do we teach our students to evaluate the reality of the pressure they feel and to deal with it appropriately?

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Lance Armstrong Is Right About One Thing

Victor Dorff | Posted 03.20.2013 | Home
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Victor Dorff

I wonder how often our children interpret our effort to encourage them as an implicit instruction to do "whatever it takes" to rise to the top. While we are thinking, "Spend more time studying," they may be hearing, "If cheating is what it takes, then so be it."

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When Did Cheating Become a Controversial Topic?

Victor Dorff | Posted 03.11.2013 | Home
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Victor Dorff

Perhaps I am delusional, but I seem to recall a time when everyone agreed that cheating was wrong. Today, cheating seems to have evolved into an insidious disease infecting our society.

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