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May 26, 2019
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: ABA legal ed section’s council adopts tighter bar pass standard; clock for compliance starts now.
Following multiple years of discussion, and two rejections from the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar adopted a proposed revision to tighten an accreditation standard regarding bar passage Friday.
To be in compliance with the revised version of Standard 316, at least 75% of a law school’s graduates who sat for a bar exam must pass within two years of graduation. Under the previous rule, there were various ways to meet the standard, and no law school had been found to be out of compliance with it.
Those ways include:
• Having a 75% pass rate for all graduates over the five most recent calendar years;
• Having a 75% pass rate for at least three of those five years;
• And having at least 70% of its graduates pass the bar at a rate within 15 percentage points of the average first-time bar pass rate for ABA-approved law school graduates in the same jurisdiction for three out of the five most recently completed calendar years.
Under ABA rules, the House of Delegates can send a proposed revision back to the section’s council twice, but the council has the final decision on matters related to law school education. The House of Delegates voted against the proposed revision in February 2017 and this past January.
This is going to hurt some places.
BUT SINCE THE PRESS BLAMES HIM FOR HILLARY’S LOSS, THERE AREN’T MANY COMPLAINTS: Theory of Revised Julian Assange Indictment Could Apply to Ordinary Reporters.
ANN ALTHOUSE busts the hypocrites.
First, I’m tired — and was tired long ago — of the Hillary Clinton theory that every attack on a woman is “sexist.” Women in high positions need to be attackable or I don’t want them in high positions. So that theory will perversely push me into the sexist position that women should not hold high positions.
Second, the video Trump tweeted is not the video of Pelosi that was determined to have been “doctored.”
Much, much more at the link.
PETER BERKOWITZ: Harvard’s Latest Enfeeblement of Liberal Education.
MICHAEL MCCONNELL: What Should Free Speech Mean In College?
TRULY BASED ON A TRUE STORY: McAleer’s ‘FBI Lovebirds’ Will Shame Media, Hollywood (Again).
EXCEPT AS SOON AS THE INVADERS TAKE IT, THEY’LL ESTABLISH CONTROLS TO ENTRY: France belongs to everyone.
THEY’RE NOT WRONG: Crossfit quits Facebook, Instagram: “utopian socialists”.
THIS JUST IN: OCCASIONAL CORTEX APPARENTLY HAS TWO HEADS: Head and shoulders, knees and womb.
Which finally and for good disproves that canard about two heads thinking better than one.
OH, DEAR LORD: Racism: Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
APPARENTLY MANY REASONS, BUT AN OVERABUNDANCE OF VIBRANT BANLIEUES CAN’T HELP: Why Does France Keep Getting Attacked?
THE END OF AN ERA: Rolling Thunder Motorcycles Will Ride In D.C. For The Last Time.
WEIRD. I’M SURE THERE’S MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTABLE TO HARVARD GRADUATES: Why becoming a Wienermobile driver is harder than getting into Harvard.
BUT I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Discovery of billion-year-old fungi changes our understanding of life on Earth.
DEAR COLORADO, PLEASE STOP IMPORTING THESE POLICIES: Open Letter to Gavin Newsom: Your Policies Are Tearing My Family Apart.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. BEHOLD HOW SHOCKED IT IS: Scientists discover China has been secretly emitting banned ozone-depleting gas.
OPEN THREAD: Do your best work.
OUR IMPARTIAL JUDICIARY: Utah State Trial Judge Disciplined for Anti-Trump Remarks in Courtroom.
TRUE STORY, TENNESSEE REQUIRED MARRIAGE LICENSES BECAUSE COUNTY CLERKS WEREN’T GETTING THEIR FEES WHEN PEOPLE JUST GOT MARRIED AT CHURCH AND RECORDED IT THERE: Alabama votes to end marriage licenses.