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"The NEDM project has been very helpful in the ongoing expansion of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse. By leveraging the work of the NEDM in finding commonality among education data attributes across disparate systems and organizations, we are able to more quickly deliver broadly applicable enhancements."
-Shawn Bay
 Founder/CEO, eScholar LLC

“What I’ve found helpful about working with NEDM is that it provides us with a starting point for our work to expand our data system. In New Jersey, we have multiple, fragmented data collections that grew over the years as independent entities. Our challenge is to build out our SLDS to incorporate what we’ve been collecting but also focus on what we may not have been collecting. NEDM is a fabulous tool to help us establish our priorities for which data elements and collections should be incorporated first and also to provide the more global guidance of what the data values and formats should be for each new data element.”
-Bari Anhalt Erlichson PhD
 Director Office of Research and Evaluation, New Jersey Department of Education

The National Education Data Model

Welcome to the National Education Data Model Website
Welcome to NEDM 2.0 officially released on March 3, 2010 at the 23rd Annual MIS Conference. Please take a moment to look around and utilize the work that has gone into the NEDM site. NEDM can also be accessed via the working site located at http://nces.sifinfo.org/DataModel/. Comments and criticism is welcomed at nedm@ccsso.org. Thank you for your contributions and partnership.

The National Education Data Model is a conceptual but detailed representation of the education information domain. The Education Data Model strives to be a shared understanding among all education stakeholders as to what information needs to be collected and managed at the local level in order to enable effective instruction of students and superior leadership of schools.

The Education Data Model can be used by educators, vendors, and researchers to understand the information required for teaching, learning, and administrative systems. The Education Data Model answers questions such as:

  • What data do schools need to collect and manage in order to meet the educational needs of their students?
  • What information is needed to effectively manage education organizations such that teaching and learning is successful?

Read More about how NEDM is the single, comprehensive model of education data and is prerequisite to establishing automated and comparable systems.