Sentences with phrase «read by law students»

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I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

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English teacher Greg Van Voorhis at the Bronx School of Law and Finance is being investigated by the New York City Department of Education after allegations that he gave students lewd stories to read.

Hands down, the worst dating profile I've ever read was written by a law student who thought he knew the way to impress a woman.

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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.

He established a waiver process that effectively allowed two - thirds of the states to deviate from various requirements of the law — most prominently the requirement that all students be proficient in math and reading by the end of this year.

In March 2010, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan accused educators of having «lowered the bar» so they could meet the requirements set by the federal education law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which requires that all students be proficient in reading and math by the year 2014.

In 2002, Congress passed a law that declared that all students in all grades shall be proficient in math, reading, and science by 2014, but in 2012 most observers found that goal utterly beyond reach.

The law requires that every state test every student from grades three to eight in reading and mathematics, then disaggregate each school's scores by race, limited English proficiency, disability and low - income status.

Under the law, for the first time, schools were required to test every student annually in math and reading in grades K - 8, and schools had to make «adequate yearly progress» — as measured by student test scores — or face increasingly heavy penalties.

Under the law, every student was supposed to be proficient in math and reading by 2014 — a deadline that came and went with most policymakers agreeing it was unrealistic.

Harkin told HuffPost that he is «hopeful» the bill will become law before implementation of waivers allowing states to forego certain No Child Left Behind rules, such as those requiring all students to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

To achieve this purpose the law established the following goals: (1) all students will attain proficiency or better in reading and mathematics by 2014; (2) all limited English proficiency students will become proficient in English; (3) all teachers will be highly qualified by 2005 - 2006; (4) all students will be educated in a safe, drug - free environments; and (5) all students will graduate from high school.

Declaring that the law's aspirational goal of schools bringing all of its children to proficiency in reading and math by 2014 led to what U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan declares to be a «broken system» which penalizes far too many schools arbitrarily for failing to improve student achievement.

Schools that receive federal aid for disadvantaged students and that consistently fall short of the goals set under No Child Left Behind are subject to increasingly severe penalties, beginning with the bailout provision offered parents after two straight years of shortfalls in either one of the two subjects currently covered by the law: math and reading.

Read to Achieve: The Read to Achieve law, enacted in 2012 as part of Senate leader Phil Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act, was designed to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of the third grade.

The waivers freed the states from some of the law's toughest requirements, including that schools prepare every student to be proficient in math and reading by 2014 or risk escalating sanctions.

Forty - one states, Washington D.C. and a group of eight districts in California have been let out of some of the No Child Left Behind law's biggest requirements — getting 100 percent of students to proficiency in math and reading by the end of this school year, paying for tutors for students at low - performing schools and allowing students to transfer to other schools.

According to the Education Commission of the States, 16 states plus Washington, D.C. have laws that require retention for students not reading at a certain level by the end of third grade.

The goal of the law is that all students will score at the «proficient» level in reading and math by 2014.

The No Child law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, requires testing in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and reporting of scores for groups of students including racial and ethnic minorities.

Scores increased only marginally for eighth graders and not at all for fourth graders, continuing a sluggish six - year trend of slowing achievement growth since passage of the law, which requires schools to bring 100 percent of students to reading and math proficiency by 2014.

More than half of the states have been granted exemptions from the law's requirement that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.

The law freed states to expand the ways they hold schools responsible for improving student success by adding at least one «nonacademic» indicator to an accountability system primarily based on standardized tests scores in reading, math and science.

Now, under a new, more flexible federal law called the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Illinois is proposing a new timeline to get students up to par, and it's almost as daunting as the 100 percent goal: By 2032, 90 percent of students would pass state reading and math exams and be considered proficient.

Couple that with the state's Read to Achieve law which mandates all students will be reading on grade level by the end of third grade, and North Carolina is taking the first steps in the right direction of a long journey to improved student outcomes in K - 3 and beyond.

By law, states are supposed to gradually increase the percentage of students who pass standardized reading and math tests until 100 % of them do by 201By law, states are supposed to gradually increase the percentage of students who pass standardized reading and math tests until 100 % of them do by 201by 2014.

Messrs. Walker and Evers formed a joint committee this month that will write a new state policy to replace the federal law requiring schools to ensure all students are passing state math and reading exams by 2014.

The Read to Achieve law, enacted in 2012 as part of Sen. Phil Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act, was designed to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of the third grade.

So the Obama administration has used its regulatory discretion to reauthorize the law by fiat, exempting states that sign on to its agenda from the requirement that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.

The 10 - year - old federal NCLB law requires all students to achieve proficient math and reading scores by 2014, which many consider an impossible feat.

The law requires that 100 percent of students score proficient in reading and math by 2014.

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Studies suggest that two - thirds of students who struggle with reading by fourth grade will run into trouble with the law at some point.

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There, students can find a section called «Running on Oil» and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record — citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies fought tooth and nail, by the way — but makes only vague references to spills or pollution.

The striking difference was that while in a common law faculty, first year students are inundated with judgments, civil law students read a half - dozen judgments and mostly relied on a text, «doctrine» as civilians call it: a book that summarized the area of law, usually by the prof or another leading scholar.

I was intrigued to read yesterday about a new project launched by Mike Sacks, a third - year law student at Georgetown who describes himself as «interested in legal journalism and the intersection of law and politics.»

No, the faculty focus their energies (and therefore their students» borrowed money) on «scholarship,» meaning the faculty's production of law review articles (that are selected and edited by law students — someone please explain this to me) that almost nobody reads.

See Brugger, supra n. 141, at 647 (stating that while Tucker's moot court was «no innovation in legal training,» Tucker enjoyed using it); Butler, supra n. 143, at 29 (stating that «with the higher view of preparing students for speaking and writing on legal subjects, it will be useful to exercise their minds by forensic debates in moot courts, and by requiring from them written opinions on questions of law, and readings and dissertations on statutes and other themes, as circumstances permit»); Laub, supra n. 144, at 14 (quoting Reed's letter to the Dickinson College Trustees on a course of study); Barrow, supra n. 148, at 289.

Under the circumstances, it's no surprise that modern students» legal research proficiency is hindered by what commentators have accurately identified as «shallow reading» and «cut - and - paste» analysis.62 And there is data aplenty to establish that today's law graduates are generally inefficient researchers.63 But is a return to the books the only antidote?

An eminent lawyer with liberal views on religion, slavery, and republicanism, Wythe saw little benefit in the drudgery of traditional legal training and preferred to have his students read law reports and foundational English legal writings, such as those by Sir Edward Coke.

By: Eleanor A. Carlson PDF Version: Law Students, Legal Services, and Access to Justice Legislation and Rules Commented On: Legal Profession Act, RSA 2000, c L - 8; Rules of the Law Society of Alberta; Law Society of Alberta Code of Conduct... Continue reading →

If only every law student could simply read «Making Your Case,» by Justice Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner, and magically be imbued with the ability to write concise, persuasive briefs that don't drive judges and their clerks to drink.

Prior to the establishment of law schools, law students entered the profession by reading law in a law office.

Of course, what we need is a good deal less supposedly scholarly output that no one reads produced by law professors making fat salaries on the backs of law students, many of whom will never find work as lawyers.

I have a recent call and I'm a bit irked by this attack on law students who don't read every case.

The problem lies with what they read: 95 % of what students are assigned has been written by judges and law professors, and lawyers learn to imitate and replicate their bad habits.