Sentences with phrase «sets of bar exams»

After graduating from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law this past summer, I wrote two sets of bar exams — Ontario and New York — as did about a dozen other Canadian JD graduates.

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«To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and high - quality student - teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.

Enabling test refusal sets students up to fail in the future; they can not opt out of tests in college, the bar exam, or other professional certification exams.

Less than one - third of states currently require these exams for licensure, however, and many states that do still tend to set a low bar for passage.8 In sum, many licensure exams do not include a performance component and do not assess the types of skills that make for great teaching in the classroom.

Four factors perpetuate this patchwork system: from state - to - state, licensure exams are rarely a meaningful measure of readiness to teach; the bar for passing is often set too low; little uniformity exists across state lines; and current processes limit the ability of teachers to easily transfer their licenses to other states.

Not only are there problems with the ways in which these exams assess teachers, but these exams often set the bar too low — an issue that is, in part, a result of each state's ability to set passing scores for teacher licensure exams.

On the heels of the release earlier this year of the film, A Lawyer Walks into a Bar..., a film that followed six aspiring lawyers as they took the California bar exam, another filmmaker is set to release The Trials of Law School, which follows eight students through their first year in law school at the University of OklahoBar..., a film that followed six aspiring lawyers as they took the California bar exam, another filmmaker is set to release The Trials of Law School, which follows eight students through their first year in law school at the University of Oklahobar exam, another filmmaker is set to release The Trials of Law School, which follows eight students through their first year in law school at the University of Oklahoma.

It also offers candid advice about how law schools can set their students up for ethical practices long before they take the bar exam, and how young lawyers can meet the standards of decorum expected of them.

The Federation has also created national admissibility standards that stipulate what core courses are required in order for a law school to be accredited; in addition, the Federation sets out what must be covered as part of provincial bar admission courses / exams.

The LPP was set up to let the law schools off the hook for bloating up in size and then virtually never failing anyone (lest grant and tuition money go a-glimmering) and the government off the hook for its negligent misallocation of scarce education resources and the Law Society off the hook from having to be the bad guy and flunk people at the bar exam stage and off the hook for having made a very bad decision to reduce articling from 12 months to 10.