The last Teaching Breakfast focused on students in groups (collaborative learning) and also on students "evaluating" each others work.  I thought the group would be interested in knowing that  the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently ruled that the age-old tradition of pupils' grading their classmates' work violates a federal privacy act.  See the web at: 

http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues126.shtml  

for more details.  I'm not sure what this ruling means for you, or if it matters at all to you... but I wanted to be sure you were aware of it. 


        Mr. James B. Greenberg
        Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
        Milne Library
        SUNY College at Oneonta
        Oneonta, New York 13820

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