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	<title>Best Practices for Legal Education &#187; Uncategorized</title>
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		<title>Assessment Tales:  The Bluebooks That Stayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glesnerfinesb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year when we all have the grading of our last semester’s bluebooks well behind us and the last few students have come in to review their exams. So we have packed up the bluebooks to be archived and they are out of sight and out of mind. But wait! In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2470&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The True Function of Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character &#8211; that is the goal of true education.&#8221; &#8211; Martin Luther King Jr. Happy Martin Luther King Day! Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2477&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unaccredited Law School Sues ABA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ischarf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article, Unaccredited Law School Sparks Debate With Lawsuit Against Bar Association by Katherine Mangan, comes to us from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The argument is that the ABA and accredited schools are using their market dominance to prevent new schools from gaining accreditation. Here is an excerpt: A Tennessee law school&#8217;s lawsuit against the American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2455&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Practice of Counseling Students out of Clinic make a Statement about the place of Clinical Education in the Academy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ischarf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it does. In my experience, it is unusual for a professor or dean to encourage a student to forego taking or to drop a so-called stand up or doctrinal class, particularly if it&#8217;s required. The opposite situation prevails in clinics, which presently are rarely required; in these classes, the pressure to maintain in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2451&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Counsel or Not to Counsel Students OUT of Clinics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ischarf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our quest to offer and provide as many students as possible the opportunity to participate in clinics while in law school, the notion that a clinical experience is not  appropriate for certain students is not likely to be a popular one. Nonetheless, I imagine I&#8217;m not the only clinical professor who has faced this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2448&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots in Legal Education</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2011/12/15/connecting-the-dots-in-legal-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has a new opinion on educating law students, this time from Stanley Fish from Yale.  His opinion focuses on the art of law and states that the study of legal scholarship in his course gives students an understanding of what is at stake in a legal proceeding, and provides a basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2437&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Article: Alternative Justifications for Academic Support II: How ‘Academic Support Across the Curriculum’ Helps Meet the Goals of the Carnegie Report and Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Ramakrishna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Louis N. Schulz, Jr. from New England Law School recently posted an article entitled Alternative Justifications for Academic Support II: How ‘Academic Support Across the Curriculum’ Helps Meet the Goals of the Carnegie Report and Best Practices, Capital University Law Review, Vol. 40, 2011. Here is the abstract: In the wake of two momentous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2429&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovations in the First Year:  Outcomes, Assessments and Collaboration, Oh My!</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2011/11/30/innovations-in-the-first-year-outcomes-assessments-and-collaboration-oh-my/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Grose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2010, the faculty of William Mitchell College of Law approved a pilot curriculum for one section of the first-year class to run in 2011-2012.  The Deans also created a Pilot Assessment Committee, whose task would be to monitor and evaluate implementation of the pilot curriculum.  I am the chair of that committee. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2406&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Editorial: Legal Education Reform</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2011/11/26/new-york-times-editorial-legal-education-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Ramakrishna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was brought to my attention by Professor Irene Scharf, a frequent author on this blog. The New York Times has an editorial yesterday on Legal Education Reform. It also appears in the paper on page A16. Here is a piece: Addressing these issues requires changing legal education and how the profession sees its responsibility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2403&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Time to Lose: Negative Impact on Law Student Wellbeing May Begin in Year One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Ramakrishna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new article, No Time to Lose: Negative Impact on Law Student Wellbeing May Begin in Year One  was recently published in The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, Vol. 2, No.2, pp. 49-60, 2011 and posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Preliminary results of a pilot study of law students suggest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2395&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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