Considerable attention is being paid to cheating in high schools and colleges. A Midwestern high school teacher gave his students the answers to questions on a national tournament, and they finished first. The students remained silent about the cheating for months until one young woman said her conscience bothered her, and she revealed that the contestants had been given the answers. Her schoolmates criticized her for talking.

Two-thirds of high school seniors say they would lie to achieve business objectives, and a third said they would plagiarize to pass a certification test.

Only 21 percent of elementary students say they would look at another student's test paper; 65 percent of high school students said they would.

At the college level, surveys show that two of three students say they cheated at least once during college. Some justify this by saying society itself seems to reward those with less than scrupulous standards. The Center for Academic Integrity (CAI) at Duke University, a consortium of 100 colleges and universities, provides information about the problem.

Conduct a search for material about cheating in schools and colleges and use this as background for interviewing and polling on campus.