Subscribe to our newsletter. I don't think so. U.S. News and World Report ran several articles in the fall of 1999 documenting how pervasive cheating is in American public high schools. Cheating after all is nothing more than a game of wits as far as teenagers are concerned.
Kids delight in pulling the wool over adult eyes, if they can.
In private schools, on the other hand, cheating is discouraged by tough Codes of Behavior which are enforced. Private schools devise tests which require written answers rather than multiple guess answers. That's more work for teachers to mark, but eliminates much cheating. The public education bureaucracy answers to political masters. State legislatures, state boards of education, local boards of education, unions, and countless other organizations demand action to correct the continuing failings of our nation's public education system.