software decision making

I personally don't use any but one that I found is a decision tree for excel. This can be used to see what will happen to your company when you make certain decision. For example it can be used to check and track progress of employees. This will help keep organized.


Source: http://www.decision-making-confidence.com/decision-tree-software.html

Plagiarism

Technology has enabled plagiarism in many ways. In made it a lot similar. Now all that needs to bedone is to copy and paste information from online onto a document. There are also Internet Paper Mills where you can buy terms papers. College have found a few ways to try prevent this from happening. They use software programs that check to see if papers have been used before. Also teacher are encouraged to talk more about sourcing and plagiarism.


Sources:
http://orange.eserver.org/issues/5-1/kennedy.html
http://www.ehow.com/info_7994370_colleges-doing-fight-plagiarism.html

Ethics

One time when my ethics were questioned was in highest school there was a substitute teacher the day one of my Biology test were. The substitute didn't really care if people were using the book or asking others for the answers. While it was tempting to do this I just took the test the normal way.

The US falling behind other countries in Education

Americans are falling behind because there is a lack of focus in Math and Science. In general there is a lack of focus and motivation to do well in a lot of classes. Also, the lack of requirement in subjects. From the article I read it talked about how California tried to have a set of requirements but the students did so bad they didn't use the results.

The article I read was http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/496867/american_students_are_falling_behind_pg3.html?cat=4.