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Last fall, responding to abnormally high levels of student dissatisfaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) commissioned McKinsey & Co. to survey disgruntled law students. The results confirm what many of us knew all along: HLS needs to focus more attention on its basic educational issues, such as decreasing class sizes, hiring more...
And while the administration is seriously considering the grading issue, a proposal to increase the number of professors is not being drafted.
"The McKinsey [report] persuaded more people to be interested in this issue," Warren says. "I think my committee is enthusiastic about making significant changes in the grading system."
Second-year HLS student Justin S. Cooper, who is a member of ILC, says there are several reasons for not considering extending the simple pass/fail grading to the entire first year.
Cooper says students have little faith in the grading process as it stands now.