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What a fantastic article as school as just opened in many areas. Education.com is always full of informational and up-to-date news on academics, parenting and more. One of my favorite websites! Source: Education.com Ethics in the Classroom: What You Need to Know By: Anna Weinstein Ethics and morals are often associated with religion, but schools can also provide important lessons in ethical thinking and action. “There’s a big fear out there that somehow teaching ethics in school will seep into students a particular religious viewpoint,” says Dr. Bruce Weinstein, aka The Ethics Guy. “But ethics must be taught and are being taught in school. It’s impossible not to teach ethics in a school.” Weinstein, who writes a weekly column for BusinessWeek.com and recently released the popular book Is It Still Cheating if I Don’t Get Caught?, says if schools have a code of conduct, they are teaching ethics. According to Weinstein, there are five basic principles of ethics that are common to all ...

Source: Connect with Kids “You see it everywhere, you see it on the websites, all of these paper mills - places where you can buy papers, [there are] a variety of ways you can cheat, huge variety of ways. [And many teens think] ‘Well, if it’s so widespread, how could it be so wrong?’” – Hal Thorsrud, Ph.D, assistant professor of philosophy, Agnes Scott College “Hi YouTube, it’s me Kiki,” says a young teenage girl staring into her web camera. “Today I’m going to show you guys how to cheat on a test … the effective way.” This video on YouTube, that had over 100,000 hits in the first week after it was posted, is a tutorial for cheating. “I know it’s not a good thing to cheat,” Kiki continues, “it’s like academic dishonesty blah, blah, blah … but you know, everyone, I think everyone has at least done it once.” Kids know cheating is wrong, but still they do it. Why? “Sometimes the teacher doesn’t give us enough time on our work and we run out of time,” says one girl, “and we have no where e...

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