Outrageous+School+Dishonesty

Kevin,

Great organization! Your parenthetical citations are not accurate. Please correct them using the reference materials on the homepage. I may suggest rearranging your body paragraphs but I want to see what you write before I make that suggestion. :) ‍

Kevin Lantz

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I. Introduction: (include general ideas that will introduce your topic)
 * Cheating has gotten way out of control.

II. Body Paragraph #1 - It is terrible that students cheat but it is so out of control that even teachers and administrators are involved in it.
 * Dr. Hall, once named as the nation's school superintendent of the year and a veteran of 40 years in tough urban districts including New York and Newark, now stands marked by the biggest standardized test cheating scandal in the country's history. (Kim Severson, A16)
 * Several U.S. school districts spent the summer embroiled in scandals over cheating on student tests--not by students but by teachers. (4)
 * These scandals raise hard questions that test the judgment and resolve of educators, parents and society at large. (4)

III. Body Paragraph #2 - Cheating today uses many different tools to cheat than in past years. IV. Body Paragraph #3 - There seems to be strong evidence to support that if you cheat in school than you are highly likely to cheat in the workplace.
 * The latest tactic is to write the answers on the back of a water bottle label or print out a fake label and stick it on before class starts. What looks like a regular water bottle is really a cheat sheet. (Michael Romano, 14)
 * Today teachers are facing cheating facilitated by technology as they struggle to find constructive uses of technology to develop learning strategies. (Elizabeth "Betty" Marcoux, 70+)
 * Research suggests that incidents of students' cheating increases from elementary school through high school. Cizek (1999) estimates that over one-third of students engage in some form of academic dishonesty during elementary school. Further studies found that 70% of students reported cheating in high school (e.g., Davis & Ludvigson, 1995; Schab, 1991). ( Kimberly A Gilbert; Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin; Rebecca Silva, 156+)
 * In study of the medical profession, Baldwin and Daugherty (1996) found that the best predictor of cheating in medical school was having cheated previously in one's academic career, either in high school or college. Fass (1990) observed a correlation between cheating in school and cheating in public arenas such as income tax payment, politics, and college athletics. (Sarath Nonis; Cathy Owens, 69+)
 * He determined that students who engage in a wide range of academic dishonesty also engage in a wide range of work-related dishonesty. ( Sarath Nonis; Cathy Owens, 69+)
 * Studies report that the incidence of cheating on college campuses is at an all-time high, with the percentage of students cheating ranging from 30% to 96% (Berton, 1995; Diekhoff, et al., 1996; Haines, LaBeff, Clark, & Diekhoff, 1986; Nonis & Swift, 1998). (Sarath Nonis; Cathy Owens, 69+)

V. Conclusion -