Law Schools Face New Rules on Reporting Graduates’ Success – WSJ. I commented. The take away from this story – and from stories about college athletics – is not that Law Schools – or athletic departments – are corrupt. Colleges are corrupt. Very few people would buy a product from a corporation that has […]
Law Schools Like These Seem to Serve Everyone But Their Students – Who Probably, In Actuality, Serve the School
November 5, 2014 by
Creditors Keep Troubled Law Schools on Life Support – NYTimes.com. I wrote two comments. “Prof. Solomon’s analysis is an eye-opener. It tells us that the institutional setting (by that I mean regulations, norms, social expectations, etc…), within which colleges of all types operate, allows them to act almost solely in their selfish interest with few […]
Comments added to Atlantic Article
April 28, 2013 by
Great post on The Atlantic Site about Law Schools
April 9, 2013 by
Here is the link: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-jobs-crisis-at-our-best-law-schools-is-much-much-worse-than-you-think/274795/ Here are more disturbing numbers. The salaries of those who reported full time jobs are extremely bimodally distributed – with well over 60% making less than $65,000/yr and 14%making about $160,000/yr and not a lot in between. (From the website of The Association of Legal Career Professionals. See their Salary […]
Why Does Grade Inflation Work?
Don A. Moore, Samuel A. Swift, Zachariah S. Sharek and Francesca Gino, whose paper I cited in Grade Inflation Pays But So Does Rolling Back the Odometer – Or Overrating a Bond have a more recent paper, PLOS ONE: Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals. There is a lot for to think about […]