[Data-modeling] Changes to the schema for primary and secondary schools

[Faye Harris]

+1.

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> Currently, the lowest and highest grade levels taught for schools (that is,
> primary and secondary schools) is stored as a text string. This makes it
> extremely difficult to compare schools, since the data varies widely (e.g.
> "1" and "first" are both used). There's been a request to normalize this,
> and I've put up a proposal in a personal domain on sandbox. My idea is that
> there should be a new type (Grade Level) for this value. Because these can
> vary greatly (both in terms of nomenclature and how they function in the
> school system), I've also included a non-unique, disambiguating property for
> the locations in which this grade is used.
>
> The Grade Level type is here:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/user/jeff/education/grade_level
>
> Additionally, I'd like to add dates to the "average class size" and
> "student:teacher ratio" properties.
>
> Here's an example of a school with (only) these changed properties:
> <URL:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006bad0a0?domai
> n=%2Fuser%2Fjeff%2Feducation>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jeff
>
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