March 1, 2002
Privacy Law Does Not Preclude Use of Student Graders, Supreme Court Rules
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that a federal privacy law governing educational records does not prohibit teachers from asking students to grade one another's work.
The 9-to-0 decision ends a challenge filed by an Oklahoma mother who had argued that so-called peer grading violates the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act because the grades are disclosed without parental consent.
The language that Congress used in establishing FERPA "implies that education records
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