NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Education Data Exchange Network

Formally known as PBDMI, EDEN attempts to gather statistics from each state such as school populations within subgroups (race, gender etc), graduation rates and school spending.

EDEN data gathering is complicated by the fact that no data sent to federal agencies may contain private data about an individual student that would violate the FIRPA guildlines. So a state agency can not just send a list of students and their test scores. A reporting agency can only send a list of subgroups and counts if the counts are above a small number such as five. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) is Title 34 United States Code and part 99 of the United States Code of Federal Regulations. ...

EDEN data sets consists of three types: Statewide data ofen called State Education Agencies (SEA) District or regional data Local Education Agencies (LEA) School-specific data

There are XML representations of EDEN files but the US Department of Education does not provide XML Schemas to validate these file. These files are available from the Wyoming Department of Education. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... XML Schema, published as a W3C Recommendation in May 2001, is one of several XML schema languages. ...

EDEN does not yet comply with federal information exchange guildlines as outlined in ISO-11179 specification nor does it follow the Federal XML Developers Guide. ISO-11179 (formally known as the ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry Standard) is a standard for representing Metadata for an organization in a Metadata Registry. ...

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