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1 > Cheating on the Rise Among High School Students - On Education (usnews.com)
A new survey of American teenagers finds that academic dishonesty is rampant and getting worse at high schools. A whopping 64 percent of high school students surveyed by the Center for Youth Ethics at the Josephson Institute in Los Angeles said they had cheated on a test at least once in the past year, up from 60 percent in 2004. Thirty-eight percent said they had cheated two or more times, while another 36 percent said they had used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment, up from 33 percent two years ago. Cheating on homework is also widespread; 82 percent said they had copied another student’s work at least once in the past year.
2 > Your Lying, Cheating, Stealing Teens - Motherlode Blog - NYTimes.com
Teenagers lie. They cheat and steal, too. And they are doing it more often and more easily than ever. That is the conclusion of the latest “Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth”, released this week by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, a partnership of educational and youth organizations. The institute conducted a random survey of 29,760 high school students earlier this year (as they have every two years since 1992) and found that the next generation of leaders have a somewhat casual relationship with the truth.
3 > School Official to Be Fired After Cheating Is Found - NYTimes.com
The Department of Education said on Wednesday that it would move to fire an assistant principal who cheated on Regents exams this spring by changing her students’ answers. Richard J. Condon, the special commissioner of investigation for the city school system, found in a report issued on Wednesday that the assistant principal, Ruth Ralston, of the High School for Contemporary Arts in the Bronx, had erased students’ incorrect multiple-choice answers on the June Integrated Algebra Regents test, replacing them with correct answers, then lied about it to investigators.
4 > Lie, cheat and steal: high school ethics surveyed - The Associated Press
In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards. Educators reacting to the findings questioned any suggestion that today’s young people are less honest than previous generations, but several agreed that intensified pressures are prompting many students to cut corners. “The competition is greater, the pressures on kids have increased dramatically,” said Mel Riddle of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. “They have opportunities their predecessors didn’t have (to cheat). The temptation is greater.”
5 > Students Share Exams Online - BusinessWeek
Photos. Music. Irrelevant video clips. For years, college students have shared them all on the Internet. Now, they’re using the same medium to swap notes, tests, and quizzes—a trend that has caught the wary eye of profs whose materials are being uploaded and school officials who worry about cheating. In recent years, several Web sites have emerged that encourage students to submit their schoolwork for mass consumption. They collect old exams (PostYourTest.com, Exams101.com), class notes (NoteCentric.com), study guides (HowIGotAnA.com) and all of the above (CourseHero.com). Some of the largest sites claim thousands of users around the world and say they’re making money.
6 > Rule riles a diabetic test-taker - The Boston Globe
 The small device with a digital screen that Sara Kingsley keeps in her front pocket is her lifeline. For nearly a decade, it has injected insulin into her body through slender tubes attached to her back, helping prevent her blood sugar levels from running too high or too low. Yet when Kingsley, 24, who is diabetic, showed up last month in Lowell to take the Graduate Record Examination, the standardized test necessary for entrance to many graduate school programs, the proctor told her to remove it. “He was convinced it was an iPod,” Kingsley said in a telephone interview last week. “I never thought anyone would question my insulin pump. People don’t question if you have glasses or a hearing aid. It was a really humiliating experience for me.”
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