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Privacy of School Grades |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / EYE ON THE HIGH COURT |
| Author: David C. Slade |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 820 Words, 5,205 Characters |
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In 1997, fifth-grader Philip Pletan attended public school in Oklahoma's Owasso School District. Due to a disability that interfered with his learning to read, he was assigned to a special-education class. Nonetheless, three days a week, the school placed him in a regular fifth-grade class in the belief that "mainstreaming" the 10-year-old would help him learn to get along with those students. A problem arose, however, because in the regular class students graded each other.
When it came time to grade papers, Philip's teacher (as well as most other teachers in the school) would have the students swap tests or work assignments and grade ea...
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...mework or classroom work."
The Supreme Court will be the final arbiter of the question of whether allowing students to grade each other's homework and tests as their teacher goes over the correct answers aloud in class violates FERPA's prohibition against the release of education records. Oral argument in Owasso Independent School District v. Falvo was scheduled for November 27, 2001. .
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