Harvard was only the beginning. Eight months after allegations of widespread cheating rocked the Ivy League university, another cheating scandal emerged on Tuesday afternoon at an affiliate college of Columbia University.
In the wake of several scandals, a bunch of Harvardians are calling for a formal honor code that, once implemented and signed by students, would somehow discourage students from cheating, plagiarizing, or otherwise tarnishing the good name of Harvard. Here's why that might, but probably won't, work.
Well, this is embarrassing. Three weeks after trying to contain a scandal involving spying on administrator's email accounts, Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammands just admitted to spying spying on faculty too.
A grand jury has indicted 35 school administrators and teachers for their alleged part in the biggest standardized test cheating ring in our nation's history.
According to a "security update" posted earlier this week by the National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC (which holds and judges quiz bowl tournaments), a member of Harvard's quiz bowl team will be stripped of four quiz bowl championship titles after the company caught him illicitly accessing official quiz questions before the tournaments were held.
In scanning the email of its resident deans in order to suss out the source of a leaked letter, Harvard may have made history — in setting an example for how to spy on employees in "blanket" fashion: Search 'em all to find just one, and don't tell anybody about it.
It's probably safe to say that there weren't any winners in Harvard's recent cheating scandal, but the list of losers just keeps growing. The school's 16 resident deans are the latest unlucky bunch to find themselves involved.
Between 60 and 70 Harvard students were forced to withdraw from school on Friday in the ultimate conclusion of a cheating scandal that could have happened at any school, but withdrawing probably doesn't mean what you think it does.
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We've read a lot about cheating in the months since 71 students were suspended for sharing test answers at one of New York's top high schools, but some of the most illuminating reporting was The New York Times' coverage of students' "moral and academic math."
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The interesting thing about Harvard's big plagiarism scandal, which broke Thursday, is that all 125 students involved came from the same course, and the hilarious thing is that that course was apparently "Introduction to Congress."
Yesterday, those outside the inner echelons of the competitive Scrabble-playing world were shocked to hear of a scandal beyond anything we could have imagined, cheating at Scrabble Nationals. Some of those within the scene were less surprised.
Tuesday, the penultimate day of 2012's National SCRABBLE Championship in Orlando, Florida, the venerable event was hit with a scandal. Cheating!
Adam Martin's post today on the cheating scandal at New York's Stuyvesant High School prompted one of our commenters to reminisce about taking the same tests.
The mechanics of a cheating scandal that's ensnared 71 students at New York's prestigious Stuyvesant High School were simple: Take cell-phone pictures of Regents exams, distribute via text, repeat.
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