Can a schools culture of cheating be corrected?
The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) – August 21, 2009 [printable version] Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business, has been studying cheating since 1990. According to his surveys of more than 60,000 American college students from 2002 to 2008, 48 percent admitted to cheating on written work and 21 percent on exams. In surveys of 25,000 high-school students from 2001 to this year, 70 percent admitted to cheating on a test in the past year and 60 percent on written work. A-List Stars Flailing at the Box Office The New York Times (New York, NY) – August 20, 2009 [printable version] The fading ability of Hollywood stars to command box-office attention, and why that is happening, has been a perennial topic in Hollywood. And economists and academics have long argued that marquee names are not worth their expense. “Stars and success as a corollary is largely a myth,” said S. Abraham Ravid, an economics professor at Rutgers University who has conducted several studies on mo
The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) – August 21, 2009 [printable version] Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business, has been studying cheating since 1990. According to his surveys of more than 60,000 American college students from 2002 to 2008, 48 percent admitted to cheating on written work and 21 percent on exams. In surveys of 25,000 high-school students from 2001 to this year, 70 percent admitted to cheating on a test in the past year and 60 percent on written work. A-List Stars Flailing at the Box Office The New York Times (New York, NY) – August 20, 2009 [printable version] The fading ability of Hollywood stars to command box-office attention, and why that is happening, has been a perennial topic in Hollywood. And economists and academics have long argued that marquee names are not worth their expense. “Stars and success as a corollary is largely a myth,” said S. Abraham Ravid, an economics professor at Rutgers University who has conducted several studies on mo
