Sentences with phrase «consequences for law students»

The consequences for law students and future law students are potentially profound.

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Many states have set the bar so low for children who are learning English that students in those states could leave high school without being taught to read or write the language, yet their schools would face no consequences under federal education law.

In August 2016, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)-- supported by nearly 40 other public interest groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)-- sent a letter to Education Secretary John King demanding the department track and remedy the disproportionate consequences of student loan debt for borrowers of color.

The accountability system, policy experts argue, is largely responsible for the law's most negative consequence: Allowing states to «dummy down» their academic standards so that more students could be classified as proficient each year.

This new law will provide a measure of protection for our teachers, districts and students from consequences for student test scores on a standardized test whose validity and reliability as a tool for measuring their performance is not supported by data.

The federal law requires states to administer high - stakes tests with consequences for inadequate student performance.

WHEREAS, the new evaluation system based on NYS Education Law 3012c disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments as «Measures of Student Learning (MOSL)» in determining teacher performance, leading to a proliferation of Common Core - aligned tests with devastating consequences for teaching and learning conditions in our schools, and

During the 84th Legislative Session in 2015, the legislature passed a law with the unintended consequence of reducing the funding for public charter schools with unique programs, often serving vulnerable student populations.

«The Rule of Law for Citizenship Education: International Law and Human Rights» introduces students to the international legal order with powerful examples of the deprivation and consequences of deprivation of rights across the world.

In recent years with new state and national education laws (e.g. No Child Left Behind), students» scores on standardized tests can also have consequences for individual teachers (their evaluation is partially based on their students» test scores) and for schools (for example, potentially closing schools with a certain percentage of failing students).

Most importantly, as schools work to improve attendance for ESSA accountability, state education leaders must continually scrutinize state laws and school district policies and practices regarding attendance to be sure that they do not have unintended negative consequences for students with disabilities.

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Posts cover the rising costs of legal education and the consequences of that, run letters from law school graduates and former law students with tales of woe, and address how much law professors who do (or don't do) what their job asks of them are responsible for law graduates» unsatisfactory outcomes.

I would argue that the principal factor causing the most dire problem is not the lack of utility of a law degree, the tuition of the law school and the debt it created or even the competitiveness of the job market for lawyers upon graduation, but the four years that the student was required to spend learning something unnecessary to obtain an undergraduate degree that is utterly useless to the practice of law and that delays the entry to a competitive job market to a point in a person's life where the consequences of unemployment or underemployment can not be borne socially or financially.