[Data-modeling] Changes to the schema for primaryand secondaryschools

[Jeff Prucher]

The Grade Level type is up <URL
http://www.freebase.com/view/education/grade_level> if anybody wants to
start entering grades!  (It won't be hooked up to schools for awhile,
though.)

Jeff 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Prucher
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:10 PM
> To: 'Jonathan W. Lowe'; 'Freebase data modeling mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Changes to the schema for 
> primaryand secondaryschools
> 
> Thanks for your input, everyone. I'm going to go ahead and 
> create a task for this refactoring (I just realized that 
> school district also has properties for grades, so I'll add 
> that as well -- it'll just point to the same "Grade Level" 
> type as School). 
> 
> If anyone has additional comments, please speak up!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com
> > [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jonathan W. 
> > Lowe
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:28 PM
> > To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Changes to the schema for primary and 
> > secondaryschools
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:38 -0400, Tom Morris wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Benjamin Goldenberg 
> > > <benjamin at metaweb.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I think that the Grade Level type should also have a 
> "usual age" 
> > > > time range property. For instance, sixth grade students
> > are usually 11 to 12 years old.
> > > > Obviously there are exceptions but sixth grade curricula are 
> > > > designed for 11 to 12 year olds.
> > > 
> > > It's also important to not take a U.S.-centric approach.  
> > For example,
> > > where does "sixth form" (U.K.) collate with "sixth grade" (U.S.)?
> > > 
> > > Expected age range is a good way to sidestep this problem.
> > > 
> > > Tom
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