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From: "James Mixon" <jaromi@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: leading edge of madness
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:15:42 -0700
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You can read the 10th Circuit Court's opinion in Falvo v. Owasso Independent
School District at:

http://laws.findlaw.com/10th/995130.html

James Mixon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfred M Kriman" <akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 3:34 PM
Subject: leading edge of madness


> Two weeks ago tomorrow the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case,
> Owasso Independent School District v. Falvo, 00-1073, that will be
> of interest to all here who teach in a classroom.  The court will
> probably have to decide whether classmate grading of swapped papers
> violates the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).
>
> The particular case in question was brought by Kristja J. Falvo in
> 1998, who sued the Owasso, Okla., school district (in suburban Tulsa).
> She contended that three of her children were embarrassed when
> classmates graded each other's work and called out grades to the
> teacher.  A federal judge rejected her claim, but last year the 10th
> US Circuit Court ruled that the FERPA was violated.  The act prohibits
> the release of ``education records'' without parental consent, and the
> tenth circuit found that grades students record on homework or tests
> and then report to a teacher are ``education records.''
>
> The circuit court's ruling is supposed to be online, but I can't find
> it searching or clicking through the federal judiciary site
> <http://www.uscourts.gov/>.
>
> After 1PM EDT today the AP distributed ``Teachers weigh benefits,
> privacy concerns of paper-swapping,'' byline Greg Toppo, Los Angeles,
> so the story ought to be in US papers tomorrow or this week.
>
> The regulations are imposed by the usual mechanism: federal monies
> not to be disbursed to institutions that violate them.  This affects
> virtually all public schools, AFAIK, and _apparently_ few private
> schools.
>
> FERPA is 20 USC Sec. 1232g.  To read it as a word doc., go to title
> 20 (Education) of the US Code (http://uscode.house.gov/title_20.htm)
> and select chapter 31.  Search on 1232g.  Philologists may be
> amused by "(FOOTNOTE 1)":
>
> | So in original.  The period probably should be a semicolon.
>
> AMK

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