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The Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) are an education data management initiative whose purpose is to streamline the understanding of data within and across P-20W institutions and sectors. CEDS includes a common vocabulary complete with standard elements names, definitions, and option sets. This repository contains all the CEDS elements, definitions, option sets and their definitions, and entities and definitions. Its purpose is to expand that vocabulary to meet the needs of every education stakeholder. The expanded vocabulary is then added to the CEDS Integration Data Store and CEDS Data Warehouse – the other two repositories located here.
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New Element for Locale #542

Open emilyakohler opened 2 years ago

emilyakohler commented 2 years ago

Author(s) Emily Kohler

Authoring Organization(s) EdTech Evidence Exchange InnovateEDU

Email address emily@edtechevidence.org

Use Case Title New Element for Locale

Use Case Description Proposed element name(s): Locale

Proposed element definition(s): A general geographic indicator that describes the type of area where a school is located

Proposed element option set(s): City – Large City - Midsize City - Small Suburban - Large Suburban - Midsize Suburban - Small Town - Fringe Town - Distant Town - Remote Rural - Fringe Rural - Distant Rural - Remote

Use Case Background Locale is a critical characteristic for understanding a school context. The proposed definition and option set are based on the NCES locale framework.

Usage Note: The NCES locale framework is composed of four basic types (City, Suburban, Town, and Rural) that each contains three subtypes. It relies on standard urban and rural definitions developed by the U.S. Census Bureau, and each type of locale is either urban or rural in its entirety. The subtypes are differentiated by size (in the case of City and Suburban assignments) and proximity (in the case of Town and Rural assignments). The NCES locales can be fully collapsed into a basic urban–rural dichotomy, or expanded into a more detailed collection of 12 distinct categories.

Location of Element in the Domain Entity Schema K12 > K12 School > Address

aemandreahall commented 6 months ago

There is a need for "Locale" at the Postsecondary domain, as well. The Education-to-Workforce Indicator Framework recommends disaggregating by urbanicity and references the same definition described in the Usage Note above. https://educationtoworkforce.org/disaggregates/urbanicity

aemandreahall commented 6 months ago

Proposed Solution for Issue 542

LocaleIssue_542.docx

The attached document is the proposed solution for this use case. As a community, please review. If no objections exist for the proposed solution, it will be approved as part of the CEDS standard 60 days following the announcement of this proposal as outlined in the OSC Use Case Rubrics/Process (The OSC Use Case Rubrics/Process can be found here: https://github.com/CEDStandards/CEDS-Elements/tree/master/doc).