Cheating

type='html'>By Herman Berliner
Provost Prose Blog
Originally published September 23, 2012

Here is an excerpt:

Cheating doesn’t just start in college.  It starts much earlier and is equally pervasive in much of middle and high school education. It actually starts earlier in elementary school and unfortunately parents may be playing an enabling role in the cheating that is going on.  We all recognize that parents play a critical role in the education of their children and that teachers together with parents are key factors in the success of children.  But where should parents draw the line in helping their kids.  My wife and I both read to and listened to the reading of both of our kids when they were very young.  I hope we helped them read earlier and more fluently.  But we have never felt that their homework was our homework and we never hovered over them until their assignments were perfection.  And we never have felt that their grades are our grades and that we had to help them in any way possible to get the highest grade possible.

The entire blog post is here.