Justices Signal Interest in Appeal Over Grading Practices
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Bush administration last week for its views about a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the practice of having students grade each other's schoolwork.
The March 5 request from the justices increases the odds somewhat that they will review an appeal from the Owasso, Okla., school district, whose classroom grading practices were found to be in violation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA. The federal law, also known as the Buckley Amendment, guarantees the privacy of education records.
Many educators see benefits in having classmates exchange their tests or other work to be graded, and the ruling last July by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver,...
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