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From The Jewish Week:
With two North Shore Hebrew Academy students and a graduate now charged in the expanding Nassau County investigation of SAT cheating, some observers in the Jewish day school world are expressing disappointment and embarrassment and wondering if Jewish day schools need to step up existing programs aimed at instilling ethics and preventing cheating.
Meanwhile, the scandal — in which 20 people, many of them Jewish and from Great Neck, have been charged with paying someone to take the SAT on their behalf or fraudulently taking the college entrance exam in exchange for payment of up to $3,600 — has students and parents at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County and High School of Long Island worrying about their own college application process “being damaged through ‘guilt by proximity.’”Read the full article in The Jewish Week...