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Remember that there is no tolerance for cheating in any of my classes.
Some examples of cheating are:
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Copying another student's work
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Allowing your work to be copied
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use of cell phones during class (especially texting)
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interacting during tests or quizzes
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etc.
For more information on plagiarism, click on the link above.
Some more interesting articles regarding the consequences of plagiarism.
Three final words:
Don't do it!!
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Gene Brian Bisson
Social Sciences
Carpinteria High School
4810 Foothill Road
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Phone: (805) 684-4107 ext. 251 Fax: (805) 566-5952
email: gbisson@cusd.net
Winners in Obama education reform unveiled
Nine states, D.C. to share $3.4 billion from controversial 'Race to the Top' competition
updated 8/24/2010 3:05:49 PM ET
ATLANTA More than 13 million students and 1 million educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" grant competition, the U.S. Education Department said Tuesday.
The department chose nine states Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island and the District of Columbia for the grants. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said 25,000 schools will get money to raise student learning and close the achievement gap.
The "Race to the Top" program, part of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, rewards states for taking up ambitious changes to improve struggling schools. The competition instigated a wave of reforms across the country, as states passed new teacher accountability policies and lifted caps on charter schools to boost their chances of winning.
"These states show what is possible when adults come together to do the right thing for children," Duncan said in a conference call with reporters. "Every state that applied showed a tremendous amount of leadership and a bold commitment to education reform. The creativity and innovation in each of these applications is breathtaking."
In the first round of the contest in the spring, just two states were winners Tennessee and Delaware and they scored more than 440 out of a possible 500 points. In this round, Duncan said all 10 winners scored more than 440 points, showing improvement in the applications.
For complete story click on the URL below:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38832341
Kids' TV time linked to school woes, bad habits
By Amanda Gardner, Health.com
· TV watching is associated with bullying and lowered overall math achievement
· Negative effects of TV could be symptoms of broader family and household dynamics
· Another theory is that the act of watching television can harm developing brains
· The best way for young children to watch TV is with a parent
(Health.com) -- Young children who watch a lot of TV aren't just missing out on more stimulating activities. They may also be destined for problems at school and unhealthier habits later in life, new research suggests.
Each additional hour of TV that toddlers watch per week translates into poorer classroom behavior, lower math scores, less physical activity, and more snacking at age 10, according to a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
"Kids should be doing things that are intellectually enriching: playing with board games, playing with dice, playing with things that will improve their motor skills, reading," says the lead author of the study, Linda Pagani, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Psychoeducation at the University of Montreal, in Quebec. "All that is replaced by sitting on the couch."
Pagani and her colleagues followed more than 1,300 children for over seven years. Using parent surveys, the researchers measured the amount of TV the kids watched at age two-and-a-half, and again at age four-and-a-half.
Then, when the children were in fourth grade, the researchers asked the kids' schoolteachers to rate their academic performance, how well they got along with peers, and how well they listened and followed instructions. They also asked parents about the child's diet and level of physical activity.
Each additional hour spent in front of the TV per week at age two-and-a-half corresponded to a 7 percent decrease in classroom engagement, a 6 percent decrease in overall math achievement, and a 10 percent increase in being bullied by peers. (Interestingly, TV time was not associated with reading skills.)
For complete story click on the URL below:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/03/kids.tv.school/index.html
Copyright Health Magazine 2010
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Remember that there is no tolerance for cheating in any of my classes.
Some examples of cheating are:
-
Copying another student's work
-
Allowing your work to be copied
-
use of cell phones during class (especially texting)
-
interacting during tests or quizzes
-
etc.
For more information on plagiarism, click on the link above.
A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools
A Crisis in America's Schools How Its Done and Why Its Happening
ABC News
April 29 - Angelo Angelis, a professor at Hunter College in New York City, was recently grading some student papers on the story of Paul Revere when he noticed something strange.
A certain passage kept appearing in his students' work, he said.
It went like this, Angelis told Primetime's Charles Gibson: "Paul Revere would never have said, 'The British are coming, the British are coming,' he was in fact himself British, he would have said something like, 'the Red Coats are coming.' "
Angelis typed the words into Google, and found the passage on one Web site by a fifth-grade class. Half a dozen of his college students had copied their work from a bunch of elementary school kids, he thought.
The Web site was very well done, Angelis said. For fifth graders, he would give them an "A." But his college students deserved an "F".
Lifting papers off the Internet is one of the newer trends in plagiarism and technology is giving students even more ways to cheat nowadays.
For complete story click on the URL below:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/print?id=132376
Please read your syllabus. There is ZERO tolerance for cheating in all of my classes.
Mr. Bisson
Last updated 28 August 2010
Some more interesting articles regarding the consequences of plagiarism.
Three final words:
Don't do it!!