Several leading law schools are retooling their grading policies, with some institutions making major revisions and others merely tweaking their systems. Stanford Law Dean Larry Kramer said that it's too early to draw conclusions about Stanford's switch from the traditional grading to pass/fail systems, but that it seems to be working well. The old numerical system suggested to employers that a big difference existed between a student earning a 3.42 vs. a 3.48, for example, even though the difference could be negligible, he said.
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Grading policies get a tweaking
The National Law Journal
February 23, 2009
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