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Harvard Law School will be moving to a pass-fail grading system in the fall of 2009, joining peer institutions such as Yale and Stanford, Dean Elena Kagan announced in an e-mail to students this afternoon...
...move, which in lieu of the traditional system of letter grades will allow four levels of assessment—honors pass, pass, low pass, and fail—is intended, according to Kagan's e-mail, to "promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community...
According to the e-mail, there will be more discussion about whether any current students will be allowed to switch over to the pass-fail system. Kagan said she would hold a "town hall" meeting in early October to consider the issue further...
Full text of Kagan's e-mail...
...contributions to welfare economics. Sen pioneered the “capability approach” for measuring a citizen’s social well-being, and his work has been included in the United Nations Human Development Report. In her introduction to the speech, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan said Sen had earned the nickname “Mother Teresa of economics.” The talk drew a diverse audience, with many Law School students. Christel A. Green, a third-year law student, said she attended the event out of an interest in “economics...