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I’m still waiting for the study that goes beyond asking students if they cheat and seriously investigates why.

Until then, all we can do is speculate about what’s powering a rise in cheating revealed in a recent survey of almost 30,000 high school students. From an Associated Press article, some results of the survey:

• Cheating in school is rampant and getting worse. Sixty-four percent of students cheated on a test in the past year and 38 percent did so two or more times, up from 60 percent and 35 percent in a 2006 survey.
• Thirty-six percent said they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment, up from 33 percent in 2004. (more…)