Peer Grading Passes Muster, Justices Agree
Allowing students to grade each other's papers in class does not violate the federal law that guarantees the privacy of education records, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week.
Besides upholding so-called peer grading, the ruling helps protect such
common classroom practices as assigning work to teams of students and
affixing gold stars to student's papers.
The court rejected arguments by an Oklahoma family that peer grading violates the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, a 1974 federal law also known as the Buckley Amendment. The practice does not fall under the legal umbrella of student education records that school districts receiving federal money must keep private, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said...
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