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Cheating in School

Cheating -- It's Not Just for Kids

Victor Dorff | Posted 05.15.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: Academic Integrity, Scholastic-Aptitude-Test, Cheating on Tests, Academic Cheating, Educators Cheating, Academic Dishonesty, Standardized Test Cheating, College News, Korea Cheating Scandal, Cheating, Academic Pressure, Cheating in School, Academic Cheating Scandal, Los Angeles News
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
Read More: Cheating Olympics, Atlanta Schools Cheating, Educators Cheating, Students Cheating, Standardized Tests, Academic Cheating Scandal, Cheating in School, Academic Dishonesty, Atlanta Cheating Scandal, Academic Cheating, Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal, Academic Pressure, Cheating on Tests, Cheating, Academic Integrity, College News
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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Cheating in Atlanta: A Teachable Moment

Victor Dorff | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics
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Victor Dorff

We sometimes talk about pursuing a culture of academic integrity as an esoteric philosophical exercise, but that makes the job harder. The way to convince students that cheating is wrong is to show them the damage it does and how it affects them.

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Nevada Educators Block Integrity Effort

Victor Dorff | Posted 05.11.2013 | Politics
Read More: Students Cheating, Academic Dishonesty, Nevada, Academic Integrity, Academic Cheating Dishonesty, School Cheating, Cheating on Tests, Cheating, Scholarships, Academic Cheating, High School News, Cheating in School, Politics News
Victor Dorff

A "code of honor" already applies to schools in Nevada, statewide. Now, some state lawmakers want to give that code a little more teeth, by making serial cheaters ineligible for a state scholarship, but top education organizations in Nevada say they are against the idea.

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Cheating = Treason?

Victor Dorff | Posted 04.29.2013 | College
Read More: Academic Dishonesty, Cheating, Academic Cheating, Students Cheating, Cheating on Tests, Academic Cheating Dishonesty, Cheating in School, School Cheating, College News
Victor Dorff

Under Chinese criminal law, buying the answers to a higher education self-study exam counts as "illegally obtaining State secrets," but that didn't stop a 23-year-old student in Beijing. She spent $80 for a cheat sheet, and it nearly landed her in prison for a year.

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Survey Finds Fewer High School Students Are Cheating, Lying And Stealing

Posted 11.27.2012 | Home
Read More: School Cheating Scandals, Josephson Institute of Ethics, Student Stealing, Stuyvesant High School Cheating, Cheating in School, Cheating Scandal, High School Cheating, School Cheating Scandal, Student Lying, Cheating Scandals, Ethics, Unethical Behavior, Stealing, Cheating, Cheating in Schools, Ethical Behavior, Student Cheating, Home News

The Josephson Institute of Ethics’ biennial report card on American youth suggests that cheating, lying and stealing among high school students is o...

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Why Students Plagiarize

Geri Spieler | Posted 01.12.2013 | Home
Read More: Plagiarism, Student Plagiarism, Cheating, Cheating in School, Plagiarism Tips, Preventing Plagiarism, Home News
Geri Spieler

Candy (not her real name) needed to get an "A" on her final research paper. An "A" would ensure that her grades for her junior year in high school wou...

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The Cheating Epidemic: How School Climates Affect Student Choices

David Allyn | Posted 12.23.2012 | Home
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David Allyn

The bottom line: at schools where there is low trust between students and teachers and where heavy partying is commonplace, widespread cheating is a sure thing.

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The Global Search for Education: More on Cheating

C. M. Rubin | Posted 12.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Tricia Bertram Gallant, Academic Integrity, International Center for Academic Integrity, The Global Search for Education, Teaching Ethics, Internet Cheating, Standardized Testing, Harvard's Cheating Scandal, Ethical Conduct, Howard Gardner, C. M. Rubin, Teachers, Personal Accountability, Stuyvesant High School, Cheating in School, Ethical Failures, Education Reform, Bernie Madoff, Home News
C. M. Rubin

After reading Howard Gardner's article, Harvard's Cheating Scandal as a Play in Four Acts, and listening to Dr. Gardner and Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant on 90.9 WBUR Radio Boston, I was curious to find out more about Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant's research on academic integrity.

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Cheating to Win

Karen Bergreen | Posted 08.28.2012 | Home
Read More: Plagiarism, Cheating, Cheating in High School, Plagiarists, Cheating on Tests, Cheating in School, School Cheating, Home News
Karen Bergreen

My kids definitely know that cheating is wrong. They do it anyway. How else does a six-year-old beat Grandma at monopoly every time? I refuse to play pick-up-sticks with them any more.

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A Professor Confesses: 'I'm A Recovering Cheater'

usatoday.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, an associate professor at Arizona State University, had a powerful motivation to find out how common cheating is among school...

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New Class Of Cheaters Calls For New Ways Of Catching Cheats

TakePart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Cheating is an age-old vice that tempts every student and challenges every teacher. Pupils of yesteryear copied off their neighbor's paper and snuck ...

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Faculty Need More Support to Go After Cheaters

David Callahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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David Callahan

When Richard Quinn, a business professor at the University of Central Florida, accused many of his students of cheating earlier this month, he probably didn't expect to find himself at the center of a national media story.

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CU Boulder Cheating Up 40 Percent Last Year

Boulder Daily Camera | Brittany Anas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Plagiarism, CU Boulder, Cheating, University of Colorado, Cheating in School, Honor Code Council, Denver News

The number of University of Colorado students busted for cheating increased by nearly 40 percent this past academic year, but educators say they aren'...

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