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Education Leadership Artifact
Event
Information Exchange
Instruction Artifact
Operations Artifact
Organization
Person
Place
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Program

Common Attributes

Entity Identifier
Locus
Organization Characteristic
Person Characteristic

Core Entities

Course
District
School
Section
State
Student
Teacher

Top Level CommonAttribute Entity Identifier

Entity Identifier (EntityIdentifier)

A unique key for an individual or institution. The key identifies individual entities within the scope of a particular system.

SubClasses (No SubClasses)

Entities

Assessment Code
Identification Code
Identification System
Social Security Number
State-assigned Code for Institution
Unique Course Code

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