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Hyatt, Mark (2012). Pressurized Priorities Clash With Character Education. //School Administrator//; Vol. 69 Issue 10, p12-13 [] __ 16272&site=ehost-live">Pressurized __

The article explains about the investigation of 80 students from a high school in New York City that had been charged with cheating during one of New York’s state exams. The details a speech from acclaimed columnist Randy Cohen during the annual conference of the Center for Academic Integrity in 2002. Cohen began to talk about how the pressure on students to gain admission to not only Ivy League schools but other big name colleges help to make the students more willing to cheat to get the grades required to excel.

The article does an excellent job of explaining how much pressure was put on these students at the high school to get into big Ivy League school no matter what the cost. The author explained how the children were feeling after he had conducted many surveys and done a lot of research about why students cheat. He explains how our goals and our values have become disproportionate with each other and that cheating will begin to decline once they become equally balanced again.

Insley, Robert (2011). Managing Plagiarism: A Preventative Approach. // Business Communication Quarterly // Vol. 74 Issue 2, p183-187 [] __&AN=65438758&site=ehost-live">Managing__

The article looks at plagiarism and college students in business communication classes. The article details multiple approaches designed to manage plagiarism. The author also begins to discuss the emotional aspects of plagiarism for the college professors it affects. The article finally goes into the reasons why students plagiarize. It states that a poor understanding of how to provide citations, laziness, and poor time-management skills may be the leading causes of why students plagiarize and cheat.

I think the article does a nice job of outlining some of the major causes for plagiarism and cheating. Most of the reasons why students cheat are surprisingly very basic reasons. I agree with the articles stance that students get in trouble for false citations because technology is changing and every few years, MLA standards are being changed and the students are not learning the standards in the first place.

McCabe, Don ; Katz, Daniel (2009). Curbing Cheating. //Education Digest//, //v75 n1 p16-19 4 pp.// []

The article begins by explaining that there has been an increase in cheating among high school and college students all across America. It goes in to explain that students are more likely to cheat due to new technologies that are available to students as well as an increased moral flexibility in students. The article next raises the question of not how do we catch cheating, but how we should go about preventing cheating from happening. The article ends with an example of a New Jersey school, which implemented an “honor policy” that takes preventive measures and how the schools honor code, is defined and carried out.

This article did not really surprise me by saying that there has been an increase in cheating, but I found what the school in New Jersey is trying to do as very interesting. I can see why they would take this approach because it does make sense to try. The article points out that perhaps the only way to stop cheating is to teach kids why they shouldn’t cheat, and then treat them as adults and trust them to do the right thing.

Riviera, Gloria. A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools. //ABC News.// Retrieved from []

The article begins by explaining all of the new ways that students are able to cheat and how easy it is to do so. The article details the various websites that term papers can be bought from as well as how certain websites will help you download answers on your phone. Next, the article explains the new technology that teachers are able to use to catch plagiarism and cheating is brought into play.

The article is very informative in how students are going about cheating with the new technologies available to them. I learned a lot of ways that I never have heard of and never would have been aware of had I not read the article. I also think the article does a great job informing the reader about the various tools teachers now have to catch cheating and plagiarism.

Strom, Paris S.; Strom, Robert D. (2007). Cheating in Middle School and High School. //Educational Forum//; Vol. 71 Issue 2, p104-116, [|http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eft&] [|AN=508025262&site=ehost-live">Cheating]

The article explains the increasing concern about cheating in the secondary schools. This article talks about the increase of dishonesty in testing, what the motivation for student cheating are, what the new forms of cheating are through using technology tools. It also talks about various initiatives to protect the security of major tests.

While reading this article I found myself very surprised at the initiative a lot of schools take in order to prevent cheating. For example, I never realized how much consideration a school puts on the security of not just a major test but minor tests as well. But the one thing that was the most surprising to me was the amount of students on honor rolls that have been caught cheating or had admitted to cheating. To me that was very concerning because it shows that cheating is at every level of students.