New Statistics Show Students Cheating Less
By: Katy Garcia
Updated: November 26, 2012
A new survey finds the percentage of teens who admit to cheating, lying, or stealing dropped for the first time in a decade. The Josephson Institute of Ethics surveyed 23-thousand high school students. Fifty-one percent say they had cheated on an exam in the past year.
That's down from 59-percent in 2010. 20-Percent say they had stolen from a store in the past year. That's down from 27-percent. And the number of students who admitted they lied to a teacher about something significant dropped from 61-percent to 55-percent.
