On January 31, 2011 the US Education Department published version 2.0 of the Common Education Data Standards http://ceds.ed.gov/

The PCG Team were the primary authors of the CEDS 2.0 Data Model. Our current artifacts are:

PowerPoint: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10088635/CEDS%20Data%20Model%20%281-13%29.pptx

Workbook: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10061224/CEDS%202%200%20Workbook.xlsx

Doc: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10061224/CEDS%20Data%20Model%20%281-31%29.docx

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