Cheating is at or near an all-time high in schools and colleges. In addition to cheating on tests, students are plagiarizing from on-line term-papers mills. Many educators say the intense pressure created by high-stakes tests fosters cheating by students who worry that college admission, or graduation, hangs on the outcome of a single test. Moreover, teachers are cheating too, test critics say, because test results often determine whether schools retain their accreditation, whether educators get fired or get raises -- and even whether local real estate values go up or down. Exasperated ethicists ask whether educators are doing everything they possibly can to curtail cheating and instill core values, while others think implementing honor codes in more schools and curtailing high-stakes tests might help solve the problem.
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K Koch, CQ Press
Kathy Koch,
CQ Researcher's assistant managing editor, previously served as a
Researcher staff writer covering education and social issues. She also has covered environmental legislation for
CQ Weekly, reported for newspapers in South Florida and freelanced in Asia and Africa for several U.S. newspapers, including
The Christian Science Monitor and
USA Today. She graduated in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
K Koch, The CQ Researcher
Kathy Koch,
CQ Researcher's assistant managing editor, previously served as a
Researcher staff writer covering education and social issues. She also has covered environmental legislation for
CQ Weekly, reported for newspapers in South Florida and freelanced in Asia and Africa for several U.S. newspapers, including
The Christian Science Monitor and
USA Today. She graduated in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.