Published: February 1, 2000

Quiz Show

Two recent surveys provide alarming evidence of widespread student cheating. In one poll, conducted by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, 70 percent of high school students and 54 percent of middle school students admitted to cheating on an exam at least once in the previous 12 months. In the other survey, a poll of top students conducted by Who's Who Among American High School Students, 80 percent of the respondents said that they cheated, and most said cheating...