Analysis: A Cheating Crisis In America's Schools

Cheating has always been around and not just cheating in school, cheating in daily life events. In the article, “Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” by Mari Pearlman she states, “By emphasizing the wrong things in student testing, we end up inviting a culture of compromise” (Pearlman). Cheating is not only academic,

In “Cheating in Online Classes is Now Big Business,” Derek Newton addresses the issue of cheating in online courses and proposes some avenues to explore in order to fight against it. There are businesses, agencies, and entrepreneurs who offer to take student’s online classes for them. Newton shares his findings from contacting one of these businesses that provide tutors to take online classes for their clients, even going as far as taking on their identities. Newton found that for a given price, he could not only have someone take his online class for him, but with a guaranteed high grade. Newton explains that with online education growing so do these businesses. Newton proposes that colleges should employ more interaction between the professors

As college standards increase yearly, students feel greater pressure to succeed. As a result of the rising academic expectations, cheating has become a national issue and most students have admitted to cheating at least once in their educational career. Overloaded with school work, students see cheating as an advantage and step towards academic success. Thus, cheating results from an urgency to do well in school and being overscheduled.

In Mari Pearlman’s L.A. Times article, “ Cheating In School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” (1999), she discusses cheating and its effect on students, both, while in school and later in life. Cheating has been around for a long time and now cheating’s grip on students is worsening. With the more often occurrence of cheating in schools, schools need to put their foot down and put a stop to cheating in order to lower the occurrence of cheating in the future. However, there are some that say cheating is not common anymore and is rarely spotted.

Cheating used to be considered an unmentionable sin. However, in this day and age, it has become more common and somewhat of a daily occurrence. Cheating is more widespread today than in the past. According to the article titled Education: The New Morality, cheating has not been an issue of values, but simply one of practicality. This shows that many view cheating as a mere occurrence and something that can often be skipped over. The reason cheating has become such a pervasive movement is because many students tend to rationalize their cheating behavior. A common rationalization that many students use is, " That 's the only way I 'll get anywhere in life." Many students also tend to incorporate reasons, such as parental pressures,

Technology allows information to be readily available for students whenever they need it. With all this information effortlessly obtainable, students can take the shortcut and look up the answers, which can be viewed as cheating. Not having to work for answers could lead students to forget the “old ways” of studying; having to actually think and read could become a thing of the past. Shawn, a 26 year old teacher, had a slow class and many students were giving vague answers to his reading assignment. He “found out that only a handful of students had read the chapter while the others had either read the cliffnotes or found a summary online.”, most of the students in his class were determined to go to great universities (Rosen 23). This is proof

Cheating is the new culture, well it’s not the new culture is has been the culture. Cheating is when you be dishonest in class submitting work and answers to the professor as if they were your own. Not everyone has the same depiction of cheating. According to Rebekah Nathan, cheating has been part of the college culture for the last couple of centuries (Nathan 28). In college there is many ways to cheat. Throughout Nathan article, “The Art of College Management: Cheating”, she gives the readers a student perspective on cheating also their reasons and justifications. Not everyone feel the same way about the topic of cheating how Rebekah Nathan do. In Mathieu Bouville journal article “Why Cheating is Wrong?” he discuss the reasons why cheating is wrong also how it affects students in the long run. Cheating will become a more often thing and schools will continue to report high numbers of academic dishonesty. Keeping it part of the culture. Which is acceptable to Nathan, but she failed to layout the consequences of cheating. Throughout the four articles on cheating each author view it differently, but Rebekah Nathan article offers effective insight about the college culture and the practice of cheating.

As a high school student, I see cheating going on every day. Cheating has become normal now because all the students care about is passing. After all, isn’t that what school is about now, passing and not actually gaining knowledge. High school is just one big competition on who can get the highest grades. (Source F)

For this assignment, I attended a community meeting entitled “True Colors Community Conversations on Public Education”. The meeting was held at Clark Atlanta University in the Davage Auditorium in Haven-Warren Hall. A professor from Clark Atlanta’s School of Education opened the meeting by introducing the guest speakers: news anchor Monica Pearson, and Atlanta Public School Superintendent Dr. Meria Carstarphen. Monica Pearson’s role in the meeting was to ask Superintendent Carstarphen pertinent questions about the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, and her goals to reconstruct the Atlanta Public School System.

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Cheating was not a big deal to me when I was at Myojo Gakuen high school in Japan. However, when I went to LaGuardia Community College in New York, cheating was a serious issue to me and other students as well. While my teachers in my high school at Myojo Gakuen high school viewed cheating as breaking school rules, I believe that the teachers at LaGuardia Community College took cheating as a more serious issue than my teachers from my high school, Myojo Gakuen high school did. In addition, the penalty for cheating was also different. LaGuardia Community College kicks out a student from the school if he/she is caught cheating on exams. Myojo Gakuen high school, on the other hand, dons not kick out a student from the school because of cheating on exams. There are different opinions about cheating in my high school, Myojo Gakuen high school and my college, LaGuardia Community College.

In the article it gives out many things happening in universities which are known to be cheating scandals. Many people would expect that when you go to college there would not be as much cheating as there was in High school. What really spoke out to me from this article and what the author wants the readers to know was that students with higher education skills often cheat more than the ones with lower educational skills. “High achieving students are as likely to cheat as those who struggle academically” paragraph 13. This article showed people in the technical field cheat the most in college than any other fields such as engineering, computer science as well as a business student. Overall they knew how the outcome would affect them later

Ever since the birth of the No Child Left Behind Act, and testing being brought into schools, there has been uproar coming from everyone; teachers, faculty, parents, and students. Because of the rebellion from these group of people, their actions have changed schools testing requirements across the country. A crime was committed by faculty at a Georgia school, “where 35 teachers, administrators, and even a former superintendent changed students' test scores” (Vogt, 2013). Though this form of rebellion against the tests seems new and outlandish, this is not the first cheating scandal, “In the past four academic years, cheating on test score results has been confirmed in 37 states and Washington, D. C.” (Vogt, 2013). Though this is the first

When asking a student do they think cheating is bad most will say yes and will even admit to cheating.Cheating doesn’t affect many students on a regular day basis until they have been caught red-handed.When it comes to cheating blame automatically goes to the student but what about the adult as well.Some teachers have admitted to seeing student cheat but haven't said anything because it was on homework.Some teachers have even gone to the depth of helping a student cheat on a test.There was a survey that was taken through all of the high schools asking students if they had ever cheated on a test, the results were that there were 64 percent who cheated,58 who plagiarised, and above all 95 percent of them admitted to cheating of some sort.(Academic Integrity Under Statistics paragraph 3 )Students cheat to make it through a semester and to make their parents proud.Students cheat simply because of lack of knowledge, pressure from the adult looking for them to do their best, and last lack of time.

Most students have thought of at one time how to cheat on a test or homework. The sad part about it is that most of us do find a way to take the easy path to get our homework done. If the course is online the education board has made it that much easier for us to find the answers. If someone was to take an online science class let 's say in biology and the teacher ask a question about how a frog reproduces. The students has less worries about being caught from the teacher because most of the questions are multiple choice and it’s online someone else could take the test for them. Unfortunately technology is a tool and can be used in negative and positive ways. If the student if using the Internet for a quick fix he is not understand the material. Students need attentiveness from the teacher to make learning not an option they can skip out on. Even if the online course was to block out other tabs a student could use another computer and device to cheat. No one benefits from this. As