Sentences with phrase «law schools weight»

And although women have higher graduate GPA's on average, most law schools weight LSATs more heavily than GPA when making their admission decisions.

Not exact matches

The US News methodology uses a number of measures — like selectivity, employment rates, and bar passage rate — to rank top law schools, and the weighted average of these scores determines the ranking.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

That plan would replace a circuit breaker program Cuomo proposed in his own budget, which many lawmakers criticized as detrimental to municipalities and school districts already struggling under the weight of a two - percent property tax cap passed into law in 2012.

The chancellor said lawmakers should «reopen» a section of the law that increases to about 50 percent the maximum weight that local school districts can assign to so - called «growth» scores in judging teachers» classroom performance.

I'm not sure how this happened, but I'm guessing it's a combination of increasing muscle (I lift weights and started a new program), some decreased activity (just started law school), and probably increased calories (even though I still was trying to eat healthy).

Law school has, sadly, led to some weight gain and I refused to squeeze myself into a slightly too small suit!

As in California's CORE districts, a collaborative of ten districts that received a federal waiver under NCLB, the multiple measures can be weighted periodically — the new law requires a determination once every three years — to allow a calculation of which schools are most in need of assistance.

NACSA's rating system places a higher weight on regulatory features of charter school laws than either the Center for Education Reform or the National Alliance rankings.

Laws said: «If the Ofsted process is weighting prior attainment too much, making it easier for schools in leafy catchments, bluntly, to do well and tougher for schools in more challenging catchments.

State charter - school laws, likewise, could set aside a certain proportion of charter - school funds — say, 25 percent — for schools that are diverse by design, using a weighted lottery to ensure that school choice promotes socioeconomic diversity.

If the SQSS indicators are important signs of school performance, as the law suggests they are, they should be accorded a meaningful weight in the process of identifying schools for support and improvement.

North Carolina's School Report Cards law relies heavily on end of grade / course tests and it is weighted towards proficiency over growth.

«Our school grading law will give triple the weight to improved student achievement among our lowest - performing students, meaning the focus of our schools will, and should be, to help all struggling students and quickly narrow the achievement gap,» said Larry Behrens, a spokesman for the New Mexico education department.

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

Under the new law, test scores, graduation rates and other such academic factors are still required to comprise much more weight than non-academic factors in a state's school rating system.

We may not like to admit it, but consumers still put weight in factors such as where the lawyer went to law school, whether the lawyer was on law review, what clerkships the lawyer did, and what cases the lawyer has handled.

If Sandler could demonstrate that lawyers who succeed at large firms are those who achieved top grades in law school, maybe his study would carry some weight.

To many students, legal research is sort of the broccoli and spinach of first - year law school courses, and research instruction tutorials come at a time when they're beginning to feel the weight of their workload.

Law schools should, I think, be looking at requiring — not just facilitating — multiple modes of assessment and caps on the weighting given to final, end - of - term assessments, whether in the form of 100 - percent exams or 100 - percent papers.

The results were weighted based on a survey of Yale Law School alumni working at the firms.

«Law students are burdened by the cost, weight, excess and contents of print casebooks,» write Collins and conference co-organizer David Skover of Seattle University School of Law in a recent memo.

Rankings can be created based on a number of factors (such as price, LSAT percentile, employment of graduates, student / faculty ratio, number of volumes in the library, budget for learning, and whether Tibetan food is available within 600 m from the law school) weighted however you like.

You can build your own outcome - based law school rankings and weight the factors however you like.

This is particularly problematic in the context of students graduating with ever - increasing law school debt: as students look to make crucial career decisions while graduating, the added — and somewhat unexpected — weight of almost $ 5,000 in licensing fees has a disproportionate impact on shaping legal career paths.

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At the end of the summer, we received class lists for the current crop of law school interns — once again, heavily weighted toward women, although the gender balance in the law school itself is relatively even.

There might be one used to measure the distress caused by various subjects at law school; it could even be used as a multiplier to weight grades, as is done with diving and other impressionistic arts.

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