https://jrtom.dreamwidth.org/ jrtom - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:54:53 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios jrtom personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/611419/564947 https://jrtom.dreamwidth.org/ 99 42 https://jrtom.dreamwidth.org/299021.html Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:54:53 GMT https://jrtom.dreamwidth.org/299021.html <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/">http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/</a><br /><br />It makes me feel a little bit better to know that he won't touch math. (Or, presumably, the other hard sciences.) But, you know, not a whole lot.<br /><br />I've gone on in this space about my own experiences, as a TA, dealing with cheating. (If you missed out, it's not that hard to get me to recap. *wry smile*)<br /><br />If this really is as widespread a phenomenon as the author suggests--and I suspect that while he exaggerates somewhat, perhaps not much--this really does point to something broken in our educational system.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jrtom&ditemid=299021" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://jrtom.dreamwidth.org/299021.html cheating education disappointed public 0