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A School That Made The Grade - Literally
THE NEXT TIME someone complains about the alleged unfairness of national, standardized SAT exams in measuring students' readiness for college, here is a two-word response that should make us all stop and think: Fort Lee. The town atop the Palisades last week emerged as the focus of a bizarre cheating scandal in which high school officials routinely upgraded some students' transcripts to help them get into elite colleges. Equally important, perhaps, this scandal should be a re
09.09.2007: Everybody Does It
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (California) September 9, 2007 Sunday FINAL Edition Everybody Does It Regan McMahon CHRONICLE MAGAZINE; Pg. P18 3625 words If there were a test on the current state of cheating in school, I would have gotten an F. My knowledge was as outdated as the stolen answers to last week's quiz. Ask a high school or college student about cheating, and before you can finish the sentence, the person will blurt out two things: "Everybody does it," and "It's no big
19.09.2007: Cal State-sacramento Student Offers Cheating Services On Craigslist
University Wire September 19, 2007 Wednesday Cal State-Sacramento student offers cheating services on Craigslist By Lacey Waymire, The State Hornet; SOURCE: Cal State-Sacramento 1130 words DATELINE: SACRAMENTO, Calif. Want your math homework done for you? That's the headline in one California State University-Sacramento student's ad on Craigslist, a Web site for free classified ads. A small handful of other Craigslist ads promises to deliver English and foreign language paper
29.07.2007: On The Playing Fields, In Classrooms And Boardrooms, Gaining Unfair Advantages
Sunday News (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) July 29, 2007 Sunday CHEATIN' HEARTS; On the playing fields, in classrooms and boardrooms, gaining unfair advantages and cutting corners is epidemic. Widespread in schools Serving 'me' Sunday News Staff A; Pg. 1 1298 words DATELINE: Lancaster, PA Suzanne Cassidy Each time San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds came to bat last week, innumerable camera flashes went off, as if to illuminate this fact of American life: Allegations of cheat
Brightest Students Cashing In By Selling Notes Online
SOME of Britain's brightest students are earning hundreds of pounds by making their notes and essays available on a dedicated website. Academics said the practice could lead undergraduates to copy the work and present it as their own, and gave warning that students could be expelled for cheating. GradeGuru described itself as a note-sharing website for students who needed study aides or those with material they wanted to share for financial "reward''. The site claimed to have contributi
Choose Your Weapon
Technological development drives how people learn, with today's trailblazer tomorrow's mainstay. What are the newest ICT tools? Lucky students at Leicester University not only develop their learning through a virtual learning environment (VLE); they can also sample open-source collaborative websites like Twitter, del.i.cious, Flickr and Twine. These enable, respectively, users to share personal information, recommendations for weblinks, pictures and discussion threads. "Fi
Computer Program Helps Unis Catch 1300 Cheating Students
Hundreds of WA university students have been caught cheating in exams and plagiarising course work. More than 1300 students have been nabbed trying to pass off other people's work as their own since January 2006, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show. Academics say it is impossible to know how many other students may be cheating on assignments - ghost-written ones were the hardest to detect. Penalties for plagiarism can include suspension, loss of mark
Do Ghostwriters Help Students Cheat?
It's disappointing to read Caron Dann's article for the Times Higher Education supplement (below) condemning writers who ghostwrite for essay sites. There are many ways of cheating on your coursework. Copying from books, journals, and from the internet is one of the most prolific ways - more prolific than using essay writing websites. By Caron's reasoning, we should all stop writing books and journals and stop creating internet sites. You see the problem with this line of reasoning is, i
Facing Up To Internet Cheats
THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) BYLINE: By Graeme Whitfield, The Journal SECTION: EDUCATION SCHOOLS, Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1019 words After private schools called for GCSE coursework to be scrapped to deter internet cheats, education correspondent Graeme we look at how widespread plagiarism has become in the classroom. ********** From passing notes in class to copying the clever kid's homework, cheating in schools is nothing new. Teachers have been trying to stop children cheating for almo
Is Cheating.....
A) NEVER ACCEPTABLE B) SOMETIMES NECESSARY C) A GREAT BRITISH ART FORM We all have to feel rather sorry for Oxford chemistry graduate Sam Kay. First, he missed out on funding for the postgraduate work he wanted to do. Then, as a direct result of this initial misfortune, his winning team has been disqualified from University Challenge. Now, his shame is bruited on the nation's front pages, accompanied ‹ on the grounds that femaleness trumps relevance ‹ by photographs of his team-mate Gai