In School and Afterward There seems to be over whelming agreement that schools and teachers should play a major role in establishing honest environments. And responses to my previous column on the topic affirm that cheating isn’t limited to students. But let’s say that schools do all they can to ensure in integrity and there… Read more »
Sunny Hills HS Cheating Incident! A group of about 20 Sunny Hill High (Fullerton, Calif.) honor-roll students were reprimanded for cheating, when they insist all they did was work in a group (Anderson, L.A. TIMES, 4/11). The paper observes that the incident, which left 13 of the students disbarred from the National Honor Society, “falls… Read more »
Cheating is so widespread among high school students that it has become almost as traditional as the prom. Posted honor codes and signed honesty contracts haven’t put so much as a dent in a problem whose abuses and sophistication increase every year. I was recently invited to a forum on cheating at a South County… Read more »
The two papers were identical. There was no question about it. Word for word, paragraph by paragraph, the assignment turned in by the two young men was the same. `My first thought was that they had collaborated on the assignment,” said Christopher Morray- Jones, who taught the introductory religion class at the University of California… Read more »
