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Monday, September 29, 2008

Harvard To Adopt Pass-Fail Grading System

An article in the Harvard Crimson (9/26/2008)
reports that Harvard Law School Dean Elena
Kagen has announced that the law school will be
moving to a pass-fail grading system in the fall of
2009.

Brian Leiter has also posted on the topic, and
comments following his post contemplate the
possible motivations, merits and dangers of the
pass-fail model.