All Articles tagged school

• Teaching Law
  May 16, 2019 EDT
  Cultivating Grit in Law Students: Grit, Deliberate Practice, and the First-Year Law School Curriculum
  Denitsa R. Mavrova Heinrich

  Grit, defined as “passion and perseverance for the long-term goal,” has proven to reliably predict success in a variety of domains.

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• Social Security/Disability
  January 30, 2019 EDT
  Reality over Ideology: A Practical View of Special needs Voucher Programs
  Elizabeth Adamo Usman

  In many school systems across the country, children with disabilities are not receiving the education that they are entitled to in order to reach their full potential.

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• Constitutional Law & Criminal Procedure
  August 23, 2018 EDT
  The Constitutionality of School Prayer: Or why Engel v. Vitale may have had it Right all Along
  William P. Marshall

  Legislative prayer continues to be a contentious issue throughout the country even though the Supreme Court has held that at least some forms of the practice is constitutionally permissible.

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• Constitutional Law & Criminal Procedure
  August 02, 2018 EDT
  Sullivan Lecture 2016 Engel: Divisiveness or Coercion–A response to Professor Marshall
  Joanne C. Brant

  A look at the tests used by the Supreme Court of the United States for school-prayer cases challenged under the Establishment Clause.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Bridging the Reading Gap in the Law School Classroom
  Patricia Grande Montana

  How law professors can close the gap in reading skills of entering law students.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Scholar or Practitioner? Rethinking Qualifications for Entry-Level Tenure-Track Professors at Fourth-Tier Law Schools
  Philip L. Merkel

  How fourth-tier law schools can rethink their criteria they use when hiring tenure-track professors.

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• Teaching Law
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  Process Over Product: A Pedagogical Focus on Email as a Means of Refining Legal Analysis
  Katrina June Lee

  A suggestion that email writing should join free writing and oral presentation as valuable tools for helping students develop analytical skills.

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• Teaching Law
  July 30, 2018 EDT
  My Grandmother was Mrs. Palsgraf: Ways to Rethink Legal Education to Help Students Become Lawyers, Rather than just Thinking Like Them
  Ian Gallacher

  How laws schools can do a better job of helping law students become practicing lawyers.

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