MOOCs for High School: Unlocking Opportunities or Substandard Learning?. Although the jury is still out on that question, high schools around the country are experimenting with adding MOOCs to their offerings. MOOCs burst into the public consciousness in 2011 with the online debut of a Stanford pr...
Law school is a professional school, and any communications that cast doubt on your professionalism may torpedo your chance of admission. Try not to email the admissions office more than every month or so. You want to create the impression that you are organized and staying busy. Ultimatel...
Rushing through law school applications and submitting a sloppypersonal statementorresumeis a bad idea, experts say. Furthermore, there's no shame in taking agap yearor years to improve your credentials for law school. "After all, there are no prizes for being the youngest person in your law...
Eighth-grader Tajinitsa's school is 1,000 kilometers from her hometown. Although she misses her parents, when she broke her leg, no one could convince her to return home. She was determined to stay at school. China handles 168,000 cases of financial crime in 2016 Chinese police closed 16...
Financials:Law school is a big investment, often with a lot of student debt. Prospective students need to weigh the costs against the earnings and job prospects, and understand the financial implications of their decision. Self and Career Development:A law degree is more than just a way to pr...
(1) to regard any regularity found in a language as a linguistic law, or (2) to try to discover the truly common and objective properties of human language in general. The first approach was that of the neogrammarian school, the second is characteristic of the modern school of linguistic ...
law school. And then she starts throwing books around the room and hurling piles of papers. The fun legal casebooks no one uses, just hurling them everywhere. She then yells that she thought I would be better than the last clerk because she had never used a single thing he had ever ...
Building on the computer science concept of code smells, we initiate the study of law smells, i.e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to the compre
Distinguishing Good from Bad Law School Advice July 29th, 2017 When new students arrive at law school, they receive a ton of advice from upper-level students. 2Ls and 3Lslovegiving advice to new students. If they can do it at an event where alcohol is being consumed, a state close to...
Law school, and well life in general, is full of false summits for most people. (I say most people because there are those whose law school experience has been perfect since the beginning, and that’s great!) What’s a false summit you might ask? “In mountaineering, a false peak or...