Sentences with phrase «law schools as a whole»

But for law schools as a whole it's still a work in progress.

Legal writing, through its use of good assessment practices, can provide a model as the law school as a whole is required to adapt to the need for outcome - based measurements.

Not exact matches

Processed foods tweaked to cut salt, fat and sugar might not have been exactly what the first lady envisioned five years ago when she stood by the president as he signed the new law designed to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fat - free and low - fat milk on school menus.

Under the NCLB law, schools must break out results on annual tests by both the student population as a whole, and these «subgroup» students.

Relatively liberal charter laws in the Four Corners states have produced a broader distribution of charter schools there relative to the nation as a whole.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

Under the law, signed by President Bush in 2002, schools must meet annual performance goals for their student populations as a whole and for specific groups of students.

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Most of the 11 states want to focus on low - performing students as a whole — a U-turn from the NCLB law, in which poor performance by a small cohort of at - risk students could sink a school's rating.

«If fewer federal dollars were streaming into law schools» coffers and more were directed to fund legal services organizations, the legal profession — and the American legal system as a whole — would be better for it,» the board wrote: http://nyti.ms/1S4wuCU.

Public schools are required by law to provide children with a whole variety of services such as speech, occupational, and / or physical therapy.

What should a law school curriculum seek to accomplish in light of the school's obligations to its students, its university, the pursuit of knowledge, the profession, and society as a whole?

Marshall Lichty: So, I'm going to try to respond to that without letting this devolve into huge critique of the law school education industry as a whole.

Some initiatives build on or give new direction to existing programs, such as clinics and externships... Taken as a whole, the breadth and variety of these any efforts signal that law schools hear, take seriously, and are responding to criticisms being leveled at legal education.

Despite the perverse tendency of the competitive job market in law teaching to create a whole nation of law faculty who mimic their mentors at the elite schools, there has also been a recent increase in differentiation and specialization among law schools, as they are forced to pay more attention to local employment markets.

One market is based upon how much law firms have to pay to attract and retain top quality law school graduates, which is affected by the associate legal employment market as a whole.

If we're looking at the law students as a whole, as opposed to individual law schools, and accept the assumption that they are all equally talented, then yes, the numbers will reflect this.

Too many students are focused on grades in law school and forget that employers are not just interested in the «law side» of the student but the candidate as a whole.

Bombarded with questions about onuses, methods of prosecution, criminal procedure, and many other inquiries about the legal system as a whole, I had to pause and remind myself that these were Grade 6 students and not a first - year law school class.

«Our legislation can be very transaction focused as opposed to looking at the system as a whole or the economy as a whole,» said Poonam Puri, a professor of law and associate dean of research, graduate studies, and institutional relations at Osgoode Hall Law Scholaw and associate dean of research, graduate studies, and institutional relations at Osgoode Hall Law SchoLaw School.

So, they have individual sessions themselves in the academic track but then part of what they baked into the programming was actually going out and attending sessions that are relevant to law schools and faculty, and talking to vendors in the hall and really getting a better feel for what practice management means and why it's so important to start teaching in law school because as we all know they don't, and as a whole, I mean, there is obviously a few schools that do, but as a whole it's not part of a standard curriculum and they are very excited about that and they even have one co-session that they are doing with the incubator consortium that's being held at the exact same time.