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Student Alice Newhall says academic pressure has made cheating a way to survive high school. A national survey by Rutgers' Management Education Center of 4,500 high school students found that 75 percent of them engage in serious cheating. More than half have plagiarized work they found on the Internet. Perhaps most disturbing, many of them don't see anything wrong with cheating: Some 50 percent of those responding to the survey said they don't think copying questions and answers from a test is even cheating. Newhall, a B student at George Mason High School, says students have very little sense of moral outrage about cheating. For many, she says, the pressure to do well academically and compete for good colleges has made cheating a way to survive high school. And if you learn to cut corners to do that, you're going to be saving yourself time and energy. Schools have begun to fight Internet plagiarism with the students' own weapons. Within 48 hours, the teacher gets the paper back, color-coded for plagiarism. Surveying the shifty "Students today find it so much easier to rationalize their cheating," says Donald McCabe, the Rutgers professor who conducted the nationwide survey on high school cheating. McCabe polled the students in his survey for reasons they cheat. Beside academic pressure, he says he found the most common response was that the adult world sets such poor examples. Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe's survey found that 50 percent of students don't think copying questions and answers from a test is cheating. Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe's survey found that 50 percent of students don't think copying questions and answers from a test is cheating. Mike Denny, also a senior at George Mason High School, thinks it's simply wrong. But he says a sense of honor that would prevent cheating seems lacking in high school. HISTORY / GOVERNMENT 45 Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Government 46 Holt: Oral Histories Interviews 47 Holt: The Census and History SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY 48 Holt: Periodic Table ECONOMICS / MATHEMATICS 49 Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Economics LANGUAGE & FINE ARTS / MEDIA 50 Holt: Evaluation Rubrics HEALTH / LIFE SKILLS 51 Holt: Eating disorders 52 Back to the top 2003 Cable News Network LP, LLLP.
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