Columbia J-School Cheating Scandal- December 2, 2006 Playing education columnist this weekend, I thought I'd weigh in a little on the cheating scandal that rocked the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism yesterday. The gist of the story is that a number of students allegedly cheated on an open-book take-home exam in a passfail course focusing on ethics. Jokes about the course's effectiveness aside, there is clearly something about this that, as the Times puts it, "seems odd." The conventional wisdom seems to be that with the stakes so low, a..http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/zach/archives/017268.html |