Legal Education Roundup (Oct. 2, 2015)

Recent reports on the future of law schools and legal education.

• "A Loan Repayment Plan That Punishes Law Grads," The American Lawyer

• "How a Top Business School Added More Women to Its Faculty," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "Obama Takes Steps to Make Applying for Federal Student Aid Easier," The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • "FAFSA Reform," Inside Higher Ed

• "Donations Pile Up at Penn Law School," The National Law Journal

• "With Website to Research Colleges, Obama Abandons Ranking System," The New York Times
  • "White House Unveils College Scorecard That Replaces Its Scuttled Ratings Plan," The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • "Gaps in Earnings Stand Out in Release of College Data," The New York Times
  • "The New College Scorecard," Inside Higher Ed
  • "5 College Rankings Based on the White House’s New College Scorecard Data," The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • "This chart shows how much more Ivy League grads make than you," The Washington Post

• "July 2015 Bar Exam Results Again Show Declining Pass Rates Almost Everywhere: Outliers, or a Sign of More Carnage?," Excess of Democracy

• "The Intractable Crisis in Legal Education: To understand why the crisis in legal education persists, take a look at how law deans and professors are wishing it away," The American Lawyer
  • "Is Legal Education in Crisis? A Dean Responds," Am Law Daily

• "New Data Gives Clearer Picture of Student Debt," The New York Times
  • "Student Loans Could Use Some Market Discipline: Misaligned incentives between students and government fuel bad-debt problem," The Wall Street Journal