Common Education Data Standards
CEDS is an education data management initiative whose purpose is to streamline the understanding of data within and across P-20W institutions and sectors. CEDS includes a common vocabulary, data models that reflect that vocabulary, tools to help education stakeholders understand and use education data, an assembly of metadata from other education data initiatives and a community of education stakeholders who discuss the uses of CEDS and development of the standard. The CEDS Initiative is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.
