A few years ago, the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar proposed to do away with Standard 503—a long-standing policy that mandated the use of a standardized admissions test for law school applicants. For decades, this standard required schools to use a “valid and reliable test” to determine admission eligibility.
Character (Still) Counts: Moral Injury and the Case for Character Education
Many academic leaders remember the Character Counts! initiative from the 1990s and early 2000s. It was visible in schools and youth programs nationwide, emphasizing as core values the Six Pillars
Teresa Maggard Stephens
June 15, 2026
