Word: pass-fail
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...surprising move, the Michelman Committee, a student-faculty panel reviewing education at the Law School, yesterday submitted a proposal to the faculty recommending that students be graded pass-fail in their first semester...
...calling for pass-fail grades, the report rejected arguments that letter grades were necessary to motivate students or to give them an indication of how they were performing academically...
Many students at the Law School view the recommendation as a compromise. The committee narrowly rejected a proposal that recommended making grades pass-fail for the whole first year, despite student support...
Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, who has opposed full-year pass-fail grading in the past, said this week, "If there is a case for pass-fail it is a good deal greater for the first semester than for the second...
Sacks said, "If there is a case for pass-fail it is a good deal greater for the first semester than for the second semester...