Credentialing Failure is Not Unique to Medicine

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TaxProf Blog: Epic Fail: How Bar Examiners Screwed The Law School Class 2020

Marsha Griggs (Washburn), An Epic Fail, 64 Howard L.J. ___ (2020): All at once, the U.S. found itself embattled with the threat of COVID-19, the new normal of social distancing, and the perennial scourge of racial injustice. While simultaneously battling those ills, the class of 2020 law...

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"An entire class of bar takers was held captive to conventional thinking at a time that called for compassion and innovation."

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TaxProf Blog: Epic Fail: How Bar Examiners Screwed The Law School Class 2020

Marsha Griggs (Washburn), An Epic Fail, 64 Howard L.J. ___ (2020): All at once, the U.S. found itself embattled with the threat of COVID-19, the new normal of social distancing, and the perennial scourge of racial injustice. While simultaneously battling those ills, the class of 2020 law...

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"An entire class of bar takers was held captive to conventional thinking at a time that called for compassion and innovation."

Watching the standardized exam system fall apart has been fascinating. On one hand, given the level of technological sophistication of the United States, I was shocked at how badly almost everyone fumbled this. On the other, there was no real impetus to develop contingency plans/use some of this technology to deploy remote or altered exams for the safety of...well, everyone.

I am mildly optimistic that given the huge, systemic disruption COVID has had on things we took for granted we might come back stronger because of it...but maybe that's a hope more suited to other countries?