Sentences with phrase «approaches to law school»

While there are any number of approaches to law school innovation, I found it fascinating to participate in and learn more about one school's thinking about innovation.

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J. Christopher Giancarlo's recent speech at Vanderbilt University Law School underlined «the relevance of a principles - based approach to legal education» that is built into the architecture of decentralized networks of distributed wealth and power.

In this corner we have Professor Randall Thomas of Vanderbilt Law School who said this approach made sense because it «lends itself to allowing these nominees, if elected, to focus on independent decision - making and fulfilling their fiduciary obligations on behalf of shareholders.»

All this week, state and local law enforcement will increase patrols near high schools as part of a statewide campaign to limit the impacts of impaired and distracted driving as prom and graduation season approach.

Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»

Brodsky noted that the Feerick Commission — formally known as the Commission On Government Integrity — convened by former Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1987 to investigate the state's campaign finance system employed a double - barrel approach that involved deputizing the chairman, Fordham Law School Dean John Feerick, as a deputy attorney general.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

The approach allows researchers to «actually come up with a valid estimate of the rate of false convictions — knowing something that people say [in criminal justice] is not knowable,» says study author Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration databalaw professor at the University of Michigan Law School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration databaLaw School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration database.

Hailing the law as «a new and different approach for the federal government,» he said the measure will establish «world class» national education standards and rely on school districts at the «grassroots» to help students...

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

Supporters and critics, in their various approaches to discerning NCLB's impact, share a significant problem: because NCLB applies to all public school students, researchers lack a suitable comparison group and so have been unable to distinguish the law's effects from the myriad other factors at work over the past eight years.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

And (thanks to compulsory - attendance laws and school - licensing criteria) they could apply to private schools, home schools, and more, though I acknowledge that state officials need to be judicious in how they approach this.

How do states differ in their approaches to charter schools, and in what ways do charter laws and policies affect charter schools in each state?

Using case studies and surveys, the report outlines special education requirements for charter schools — including the challenge of pursuing unconventual approaches but still staying true to the legal foundations of federal special education law.

The variety of approaches will help inform Congress when it resumes debate over reauthorizing the NCLB law in 2009, and help it address complaints that the current law doesn't offer enough flexibility to decide what actions states and districts may take in addressing individual schools» needs.

The House is expected to pass a bipartisan bill later this week that would dismantle key elements of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping law that became synonymous with one - size - fits - all testing and a punitive approach to failing schools — and which is reviled almost equally on the left and right.

• The annual testing in grades 3 through 8 required by the federal law will make it possible for states and districts to use «value added» approaches to measuring the performance of schools.

Brandon Wright and others have already weighed in on some of the implications of this move, and how it could hamper efforts to implement the new law and states» ability to meaningfully use ESSA to innovate and adopt novel approaches to school accountability and improvement.

Although the new law requires districts to implement evidence - based interventions in under - performing schools, states and districts have a great deal of discretion in their approach to improving schools.

Alexandria, Va. (July 15, 2015)- As the U.S. Senate approaches the end of debate on the nation's largest education law, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) continues to actively engage with our nation's lawmakers in support of a comprehensive, strategic modernization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, «who made a career of promoting local control of education, has signaled a surprisingly hard - line approach to carrying out an expansive new federal education law, issuing critical feedback that has rattled state school chiefs and conservative education experts alike,» the New...

Using the study findings, the Secret Service and Department of Education have modified the Secret Service threat assessment approach for use in schools - to give school and law enforcement professionals tools for investigating threats in school, managing situations of concern, and creating safe school climates.

I ask not that public school special educators and administrators circumvent special education guidelines and laws but that they approach the process with their brains and put their hearts in their practices to allow for positive changes in special education.

Here is the connection: The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which was signed into law last December, includes provisions that give states much greater latitude in using evidence for improvement — and it allows schools and districts to more deeply explore evidence - based approaches that are best suited to local needs and improvement plans.

Rep. George Miller, a leading architect of the No Child Left Behind legislation, says he never anticipated that the landmark education law would ignite the testing obsession that engulfed the nation's schools, leading to what some have charged is a simplistic «drill and kill» approach that subverts real instruction.

Expect to learn how to design your own research and analyze data, understand a philosophy of education, engage with up - to - date curricular development, understand the essentials pertaining to school law, assess student performance, and learn about what characterizes behavioral and emotional disabilities and how to implement a differentiated approach that includes all types of learners.

According to charter and school integration authors Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter (2014), Shanker and the early backers of the Minnesota law believed that these schools should be guided by three tenets: experimentation, or the ability to use innovative approaches to teaching and learning that could inform and influence reforms in traditional public schools; teacher voice in the design and operation of the school — something Shanker saw as a direct result of collective bargaining; and integration, in the sense that schools should be ethnically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse.

This multi-method approach aims to contextualize the quantitative analysis by offering insight into how school administrators frame legislated changes to the tenure eligibility process and thus mediate teacher perception and behavior in reaction to the law change.

It is clear that more than 13 years after being signed into law, the NCLB's approach to accountability is too prescriptive, has led to too many schools identified as failing, and has prescribed the same remedies for all schools regardless of their actual challenges.

In keeping with the shift to local control, the collaborative is intended to diverge from the top - down approach that Washington and Sacramento took under the federal No Child Left Behind law and previous state school improvement programs.

The group is calling for a rewrite of the federal education law that ensures access to a well - rounded education for all students, high school graduates who are well - prepared for college and jobs in the global economy, outstanding educators in every classroom, and innovative and creative approaches that improve student learning.

We, the undersigned call on states, districts, schools and law enforcement to place a moratorium on the practice of out - of - school suspensions and invest in support and resources for teachers and other educational staff to implement positive approaches to discipline.

Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»

In 2009, CCSA's Member Council, which consists of charter school leaders from across California, unanimously adopted an approach that called for improving academic performance criteria and addressing deficiencies in current law that make it difficult to close underperforming schools.

an article by Natalie Chap and Liz Sullivan on the policies suggested in the Model Code as positive and proven alternatives to policies that call for implementing a «law enforcement» approach to school safety and discipline.

That's a more collaborative and locally focused approach than was permitted under the previous federal law, No Child Left Behind, that centered on punishing schools deemed to be failing.

Although President Barack Obama and Mr. Duncan have called for revision of the law by the start of the next school year, draft legislation has yet to be introduced, and school leaders anxious about rapidly approaching deadlines are clamoring for leeway in the meantime.

Specialty graduate programs The 1 -2-3 approach to paying for graduate school still applies for medical, dental, law, and other professional degree programs.

The driver of a vehicle approaching a totally or partially blind pedestrian who is carrying a cane predominantly white or metallic in color, with or without a red tip, or using a guide dog, or a person employed by an accredited school for training guide dogs who provides notice through a sign or other method that he or she is training a dog as a guide dog shall take all necessary precautions prescribed by law to avoid injury to the blind pedestrian, and the dog trainer.

I have applied this systematic approach in my 20 years of practice and I am very grateful to my law school and my professors for preparing me to succeed in the practice of law.

Lauren Rad, a lawyer at Ferguson Case Orr Paterson in Ventura, California, who learned to knit as a 1L at Harvard Law School just as final exams approached, says, «Learning to knit, making mistakes while knitting and fixing those mistakes is a way to learn that mistakes in other areas of life are usually fixable, too.

Does law school and «the profession» make many of us so risk - averse, passive and routinely academic in our approach to life that it knocks the will and energy to lead out of us?

As Mr. Arrow is a 3L in law school and appears to be the first one to have thought this through, I hereby declare this new approach in fictional trademark cases to be known as The Arrow Principle.

American law schools are innovating and offering creative approaches, and are increasingly leveraging social media and communication technologies to raise their profiles in light of dwindling applications.

Ideally, you should go back to grass roots and treat your quest to becoming a partner in much the same way as you approached gaining your training contract after leaving law school.

Brooklyn Law School, an independent school (presumably free of university or church interference) tried a two - headed approach to governance recently, with one dean handling academics and the other handling the finSchool, an independent school (presumably free of university or church interference) tried a two - headed approach to governance recently, with one dean handling academics and the other handling the finschool (presumably free of university or church interference) tried a two - headed approach to governance recently, with one dean handling academics and the other handling the finances.

As law school admission deadlines approach, prospective students around the country will start to hear back from the schools that want them (and the ones that don't).

Iacobucci says that, instead of a skills - based, practice - ready approach, law schools should continue to focus on enabling students to develop «higher - level thinking abilities.»