Supreme Court decision on grading of papers. (In Washington).

Supreme Court decision on grading of papers. (In Washington). In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower-courtdecision on the practice of students grading the papers of otherstudents. The respondent In Equity practice, the party who answers a bill or other proceeding in equity. The party against whom an appeal or motion, an application for a court order, is instituted and who is required to answer in order to protect his or her interests. in the case, Kristja J. Falvo, has threechildren enrolled in the Owasso Independent School District in Oklahoma Oklahoma(ōkləhō`mə), state in SW United States. It is bordered by Missouri and Arkansas (E); Texas, partially across the Red R. (S, W); New Mexico, across the narrow edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle (W); and Colorado and Kansas (N). ,where the teachers use peer grading--a common practice among thenation's teachers. She asked the school district to adopt a uniformpolicy banning peer grading, and when the district refused, she broughta class action suit against the Owasso ISD See IDD. . The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma foundin favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of.See also: favor the school district, but that decision was reversed by theCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. On February 19, the Supreme Court issued its decision, saying thatthe peer grading practice does not violate the Family Educational Rightsand Privacy Act The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) is a United States federal law codified at 20 U.S.C.1232g, with implementing regulations in title 34, part 99 of the Code of Federal Regulations. of 1974. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy delivered thecourt's opinion. "Correcting a classmate's work can be as much a part ofthe assignment as taking the test itself," Kennedy wrote. "Itis a way to teach material in a new context, and it helps show studentshow to assist and respect fellow pupils. By explaining the answers tothe class as the students correct the papers, the teacher not onlyreinforces the lesson but also discovers whether the students haveunderstood the material and are ready to move on." The Supreme Court also found that using the term "educationalrecords" to cover student homework or classroom work would imposesubstantial burdens on teachers, forcing all instructors to "taketime, which could otherwise be spent teaching and in preparation, tocorrect an assortment assortment/as��sort��ment/ (ah-sort��ment) the random distribution of nonhomologous chromosomes to daughter cells in metaphase of the first meiotic division. as��sort��mentn. of daily student assignments." The opinion ofthe court is that such an interpretation would force teachers to give upother customary practices, such as group grading of term assignments,and could have even caused concern about the placing of a disapproving dis��ap��prove?v. dis��ap��proved, dis��ap��prov��ing, dis��ap��provesv.tr.1. To have an unfavorable opinion of; condemn.2. To refuse to approve; reject.v.intr. remark on a classroom assignment.