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Poll finds cheating wanes among high schoolers

Are American students making the grade when it comes to ethics?

A new survey from the Josephson Institute of Ethics finds that the proportion of high school students who admit to cheating, lying or stealing dropped in 2012 for the first time in a decade.

The reasons aren’t fully known, but the results of the poll of 23,000 high school students give leaders of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization hope.