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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
At What Cost?
Peter Luscombe's classroom is a dying breed: a technology-free zone. No iPods, no cell phones, no Internet -- just a bunch of students, a teacher and books. "I tell them they can use the book, their brain, and nothing else," Luscombe, an English teacher of 22 years, says in the teacher's lounge at Lucas secondary school in London, Ont.. Not so in Joy Hunter's classroom, where Grade 12 English students are sitting in a computer lab, looking for videos online to go with a novel they're re
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
Do Custom Essays Help Students Cheat?
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Essay Cheats Face Deterrent
Aberdeen Press and Journal SECTION: News; Education; Colleges/Univs; Pg. 12 LENGTH: 197 words An Academic at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, is further developing computer software to combat essay cheats. James Christie hopes improvements to SEAR, which analyses word-processed work for similar content and style, could lead to it being marketed as a service to universities across the UK. The programme analyses parameters from a small sample of essays such as vocabulary, sentence
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