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...What we most wanted to do was decrease the number of categories we were using,” Kagan said in an e-mail to the student body. Kagan said that she hopes the change will “promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community” at the Law School...
...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...
...know that the faculty decided yesterday to move to a grading system with fewer classifications than we have now. The new classifications, much as at Yale and Stanford, will be Honors-Pass-Low Pass-Fail. The faculty believes that this decision will promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community in which we all live. The new system will apply to students entering HLS in fall 2009; yet to be determined is whether it also will apply to some or all classes of current students...
...next President's advantage. First, at a cost of $6 billion per year, it is less than 1/100th the size of the proposed financial bailout - a lot of programs that used to sound big seem like peanuts now. Second, it is a program that would create jobs and strengthen the economy. The next President will have to argue that any new policy program will be an investment in economic growth. Given the budgetary realities, it will be easier to get money through Congress for energy programs that produce tangible results - like building windmills (or nuclear plants) - than for complicated regulatory...
...feel quite confident, because these reforms were demanded by the civil society, and by the political parties. I do hope that the next government and the governments thereafter will strengthen these reforms...