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Grading for the July bar examination, taken by 11,182 candidates, has been completed by the New York State Board of Law Examiners.
Graduates of law schools accredited by the American Bar Association who took the bar examination for the first time achieved a passing rate of 86.1 percent, an increase of 0.5 percent from the passing rate achieved by the same group last year.
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...CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. No.02-241.... (Law School), one of the Nation's top law schools, follows an official admissions policy that seeks ... and for 13,922 Current Law Students at Accredited American Law Schools by Julie R. O'Sullivan and ...
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Law practice and legal education are facing fundamental changes. Many assume that these changes will force law schools to give up on theory and focus more on training students for the practice of law. However, this Essay shows that the future may be more uncertain and complex. The only thing that is certain is that law schools may face, for the first time, the need to provide the type of education the market demands rather than serving lawyers’ and law professors’ preferences. Legal educators must respond to these demands by serving not just the existing U.S. market for legal services but also a global market for legal information. This may call for training in some, but not all, of the theories and disciplines that have been developing in law schools.
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...CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF STATE. SUBCHAPTER G: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND EXCHANGES. PAR... medical education or training at accredited schools of medicine or scientific institutions. Th...
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The requirement in a new state law that all private schools taking part in Milwaukee's precedent-setting voucher program be accredited could prove pivotal in determining whether the program will achieve more of its original hopes or be left under a permanent cloud kicked up by a cluster of weak schools.
About 50 of 122 schools in the voucher program have no form of accreditation no organization outside the school that is giving it a stamp of approval. Although some of the unaccredited schools should be able to get accreditation, the list includes almost all the schools that raise the most doubts among knowledgeable observers.
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... Court struck down a state law forbidding schools from teaching any modern foreign language to any c... an abortion be performed in a hospital accredited by a private accrediting organization, that the op...
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Related recent events include: * USSS undercover operation "Gold Seal" against operators of St. Regis University, Monrovia, Liberia, and Spokane, WA (and corruption of foreign government officials) * Explosion in internet dms offering degrees based wholly on "credit for life experience" * Increase in number of internet "degree brokers" representing various schools * Increased number of cd&t Web sites in the Richmond, va, vicinity * Creation of numerous new ams used to support the plethora of new Internet dms * Emergence of several "look-alike" organizations designed to confuse the public (e.g., ascaor; cohl; DETQj IDETC; THLC) * Arrest and conviction (or civil charges against) operators of: * LaSalle University, Man deville, LA; * Columbia State University, Métairie, LA, and San Cle...
... they are not given the name of their "accredited" school until after they have registered (i.e., pa...
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This paper traces the history of library education primarily as it developed in the United States. The issues pertaining to curriculum, students, and faculty are presented as are the current questions of whether the educational program should have a professional, vocational, or discipline-based focus.
... elements into most curricula of accredited library school programs in the United States. The ... a collection of postgraduate professional schools, schools which replaced the apprentice system in l...
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... this year with a view toward improving the state of our knowledge in this area.18 In my remarks to ... and compensation, boycotting state-accredited law schools by restricting the ability of their st...