Taxation & Estate Planning

Students and Grades
This article from today's New York Times deals specifically with the issue of undergraduate students and their expectations about grades, and does not mention law schools. However, the grades students got as undergraduates definitely affect their perceptions of the grades they get in law school...

Motivating Students Post-Grades
It's that time of year; students are receiving their grades. Much has been written and said about motivating students after they receive their grades after their first semester of law school...

Betting on your own grades: incentive effects vs. distributional effects
As noted by the Tax Prof blog, the Wall Street Journal has an article today discussing a new on-line service that would permit students to bet regarding their own grades. Supposedly, this would provide incentives for bettors to work harder, as in the case where you wager $50 on getting at least an A-, and thus engage in extra studying to make sure you get there...

More on Grades
The recent discussions on grades have been very interesting. They certainly suggest that many professors grieve over grades and want students to know that although they are important, they're not everything; some of the comments suggest that students didn't know this and may be reassured to learn that we feel this way...

Emotional Distress and 1L Grades
My 1Ls got their grades this week. This is always painful--for them and for me. Inevitably, there is a bright, eager student who had great insights in class whose grade doesn't reflect his or her abilities...

Grades and Disabilities
This is the time of the year when grades start coming in, and distraught students soon follow. There are numerous prior posts on dealing with the aftermath from fall grades; if you are new to ASP, I would suggest scrolling...

Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students
Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students

Western Culinary Institute
allegedly mislead and ill-prepared students.

BCTI Reaches Settlement with Students
BCTI Reaches Settlement with Students

The Princeton Reivew
Personal Data Made Public on Tens of Thousands of Florida Students

Student Harassment
Wichita School District pays $45,000 settlement for high school students' harassment lawsuit.