Wikipedia talk:WikiProject School Years
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[edit] Diverse curricular expectations
Within the U.S., the curricular expectations for each grade is set by the state. They may or may not converge at all! Is it believable to think that we could settle on a consensual assessment of curricular topics for each grade?
There is also the educational requirements defined by the DOD for their APO and FPO schools on military bases. A link to the specifications for these schools can be found at http://www.odedodea.edu/curriculum/ .
Of course, I would not suggest that this specification necessarily resembles the requirements of the states. In fact I would expect that they are somewhat accelerated in comparison to municipal public education -- especially in foreign bases where the children are taught about the host country in addition to America.
- KeithTyler 21:54, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Naming in other nations
Does it really make sense to include the school years of systems that do not actually use the terms "Grade 5" or "Fifth grade" in their system?
Fifth grade includes sections on the UK's fifth school year, which is called "Year 5", not "Grade 5". Likewise it includes a mention of Scotland's "Primary 5" and "Fifth year", which also do not appear to ever be mentioned as "Grade 5" or "Fifth grade".
I would think that those topics would go into articles called Year 5 and Primary 5 etc.
- KeithTyler 21:58, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Still active?
I've moved Wikipedia:WikiProject School Years to the Inactive section of the WikiProject page, as it hasn't been edited since Nov 1st; I wanted to let you all know, and ask if you're still working on it. If so, feel free to move it back up into the active section. JesseW 07:29, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I was hoping for more interest after the VfD for Fifth Grade; but I've been the only person working on this project. I don't really care if it's marked as "inactive" as long as it's not deleted. - [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 02:00, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 23:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
