“When we look at these low-performing schools, you guys are doing absolutely nothing.”

So said a member of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity last June. (I wrote about the painful session in August.) The question on the table was whether the American Bar Association should lose its power to accredit law schools. The ABA leaders on the receiving end of that stinging rebuke had expected routine approval. What they got instead was a three-hour thrashing.

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