The National Center for Education Statistics is pleased to announce the release of Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) Version 10 at: https://ceds.ed.gov.
The version 10 standards include new data definitions and updated data models to support additional use cases across early learning, K-12, postsecondary, and workforce domains.
This major version of CEDS includes:
• 60 new elements including
◦ 1 new credentials element – Credential Definition Terminal Degree Indicator
◦ 4 new early learning elements
◦ 4 new early learning elements
◦ 12 new implementation variables
◦ 24 new K12 elements
∙ including new Spatially Interpolated Demographic Estimates (SIDE) elements
◦ 4 new postsecondary elements
◦ 1 new workforce element – Cohort Median Earnings
• 107 updated elements including:
◦ 235 context updates in the CEDS Domain Entity Schema to support new use cases involving 129 elements (new and updated)
◦ 234 context additions
◦ 1 context removal
◦ 256 cross-reference (“See also:”) updates to the Domain Entity Schema to make it easier to find related elements on ceds.ed.gov:
◦ 251 context additions
◦ 5 context removals
◦ 304 option changes involving 53 elements (new and updated)
∙ includes
‣ 269 new options
‣ 21 changed options
‣ 14 end dated options
Get involved in the CEDS Open Source Community at: https://ceds.communities.ed.gov/