Richard Pérez-Peńa reporting for The New York Times:
Large-scale cheating has been uncovered over the last year at some of the nation’s most competitive schools, like Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the Air Force Academy and, most recently, Harvard.[...]
Experts say the reasons are relatively simple: Cheating has become easier and more widely tolerated, and both schools and parents have failed to give students strong, repetitive messages about what is allowed and what is prohibited.
You don't have to be an expert to say this. With the rise of the Internet, it's become easier to cheat -- that's obvious. As for it getting worse now, well, that's just because there are more students attending school recently then there were at the beginning of the century. The economy began to rapidly decline in 2008, so high school students were urged to attend higher education. To get there, you have to finish high school. Even then, you need to do well in college to get that degree. But if you're going to cheat the whole way then it sure seems like a waste of the government's financial aid and the professors' time. People that go to college should want to learn because it's an optional system, no matter how many people advise you otherwise. If there's motive then there would be less cheaters. Don't go to college if you don't care about it and stop wasting everyone's time.