By Ashley Norris
12/14/21 – District Administration
“I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but the job description for middle and high school teachers is about to get longer and more complicated.
The problem is that America’s colleges and universities need help. Soon, chancellors will be asking—perhaps begging—school districts and states to do much more to teach academic ethics. Colleges have an increasingly pressing need for students to understand the why of good academic conduct, and to push beyond the value of the earning of a grade.
That’s not to say that study values and habits and ethical decision-making are not being taught now. I know they are. Even so, I strongly suspect that their relative position in the instructional cannon will be significantly and rapidly elevated because our colleges and universities are nearly overwhelmed by cheating.”…Read the full District Administration article here.