A summary of the “Report Card on American Youth” is available from The Josephson Institute of Ethics.
A large percentage of high school students continue to have deep-seated habits of dishonesty, suggests a survey from the Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics in Los Angeles.
According to the national survey of 36,000 high school students, 60 percent admitted having cheated on a school test in the past year, and 35 percent said they had done so two or more times. Sixty-two percent admitted they had lied to a teacher about something significant in the past year. One-third of all respondents said they had used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment, according to the annual survey, which has been conducted since 1992.
