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[edit] Welcome

A push on education-related articles is big-time overdue on Wikipedia - looking forward to working with you all on these... Cormaggio @ 00:08, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

We'll need to add way more articles to our list here, and also break these lists up into more manageable theme-based lists/projects, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative education. As soon as this project gets going, we should start a collaboration of the week/fortnight/month. Cormaggio @ 01:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for setting this project up Cormaggio - look forward to contributing. Jtneill - Talk 03:08, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Great - see you 'round! Cormaggio @ 23:28, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Denmark

I want to join this project. I can add some information about Denmark, but I think we should first go out and snag some articles which already are made. --OrbitOne 09:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, I didn't see this until now. You're very welcome to the project, OrbitOne :-) Please add articles you find to the appropriate section of this project's page (ie. requests, cleanup, expand etc). Cormaggio @ 18:19, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Templates, templates, templates?

What is going on? Someone, who I have yet to find any education-related discussion from, is going around and placing templates on every education and alternative education article to be found. They are a variety of templates, some of which are, IMO, clunky and innaccurate. While I can appreciate the ability and enthusiasm required for all of this, there is little-to-no discussion occuring. I believe there should be some consensus on these kinds of large changes and developments. Anyone else? Thanks, Master Scott | Talk 15:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I've been a bit out of the loop for a while, and have just gone around trying to see what this is about. Is it the cleanup tags (part of the fact and reference check WikiProject) or the todo tags you're referring to? Is it related to the Education portal, which i see has come on recently? In any case, I agree it would be good to see where this is being discussed. Cormaggio @ 19:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Master Scott, that "Someone" would be me. I can understand your concern about all the template edits I've been making. Clearly, there are many different preferences for the types of templates to be made and how they are used. I created them and placed them on articles based primarily on existing organizations I found at the education portal and other locations. One of my hopes for doing this was to encourage discussions of their content by putting them out there. Just like all other pages, I hope the majority of the conversations on style and substance take place on the applicable discussion pages for each template. As always, anyone can edit, remove and/or nominate for deletion any of these templates at any time. In the long run, I'm totally confident consensus will prevail. Regards, Rfrisbietalk 02:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
No problem. I can appreciate your boldness. I also can see that your work is well-intended and constructive. Keep in mind that when a new template, article, category, etc. is started, that the only watchlist that it is on is yours. If other editors don't know it's there, they can't watch it or participate in any discussion until they stumble upon it by chance. With that in mind, you might bring new additions to light on this Project page so that others can participate in the discussion on their appropriate discussion pages. Otherwise, keep up the good work. Thanks, Master Scott | Talk 13:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Good point. That's also why I mentioned the new templates at the template:Education discussion page. :) Rfrisbietalk 14:26, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I guess I missed it. Apologies. Changing the subject, slightly: a couple of us have been working on a template to help with establishing a usage standard in English language educational terms. If anyone would like to participate in discussion or development, please do so. There are three working drafts, with the latest being the farthest to the left. The talk page details the issues that this template is meant to address. Thanks, Master Scott | Talk 17:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I made a simple comment on layout there. You also might consider adding it to the list of navigational templates on this project page to encourage more feedback. Rfrisbietalk 18:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To do lists

I'm going to add the {{todo}} template to the focus articles as a way to help organize and keep track of the tasks for each article. I'll just start with a "stub" to get the ball rolling. Rfrisbietalk 20:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Google's "top 10" lists

Looking at the highest ranking Wikipedia articles for a particular key word(s) search is an interesting way to study articles' relative popularity. For example, searching "education site:en.wikipedia.org" produces a list of articles like the first one below. Identifying popular articles such as these might be a good way to help decide candidates for such things as featured article status, improvement drives, portal selection, and the like. Rfrisbietalk 03:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Here are the top 10 Wikipedia pages on Google as of February 20, 2006 for...

  • education:

1. Education 2. Philosophy of education 3. Sex education 4. Public education 5. Higher education 6. Brown v. Board of Education 7. Education in the United States 8. Secondary education 9. Adult education 10. Physical education
Check out today’s top 10 list

  • educational:

1. Education 2. Educational psychology 3. Educational game 4. National Educational Television 5. Educational research 6. School (redirect from Educational institution) 7. Educational technology 8. Educational software 9. Times Educational Supplement 10. Educational animation
Check out today’s top 10 list

1. the United States 2. Slovakia 3. France 4. Japan 5. Canada 6. Russia 7. Secondary education in France 8. New Zeland 9. Kansas 10. England
Check out today’s top 10 list

That's interesting - thanks for this. I see some of these articles aren't on our lists, so I'll add (most of) them now. Cormaggio @ 10:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I added another one, "education in." I didn't know Slovakia was so popular! :) Rfrisbietalk 14:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging education Tasks focus articles & adopt an article into tasks template

What do you all think about merging the two Tasks subsections into the template, {{Education tasks}}? That would reduce redundancy here and support the use of the template on other pages, such as the portal and user pages. I've already made a first cut at syncronizing the content. A second cut could get the template to better reflect the priorities of this project. Rfrisbietalk 19:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Right, you mean replacing the old focus articles sestion with this template, which is then updated as necessary? Sounds OK to me. Cormaggio @ 11:48, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes, replace the "Focus articles" and "Adopt an article" sections with the template. I'll make sure the template matches these sections, then remove them. Rfrisbietalk 14:06, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles that contain this project's template

Surely, the list of articles that include the template notice should really be made redundant and removed? By this I mean, all articles listed on this project's page should have the project's notice - the only reason some don't is because I have forgotten or simply haven't bothered :-). The other reason articles may not contain the template is because they had already been tagged by the Alternative education WikiProject - in some cases I changed the tag or, more recently, added one tag as well as the other. But I've missed some - so these should be changed also. (In my opinion.) Cormaggio @ 20:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

That was just a way to double-check, since like you said, they don't really match up. If you want to remove the list, I won't worry about what's not covered. Rfrisbietalk 21:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Anyway, you can just use "What links here" on the template page if you really need to know. —Wahoofive (talk) 22:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Enough said, it's gone. Rfrisbietalk 22:52, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! Cormaggio @ 10:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Web/online learning/training

Hi all, I'm sorry I'm not giving this project the attention it deserves, but anyway - just a question. I see that Online learning was merged into E-learning, but if there were ever candidates for merging into the former, it is Web-based training and Online training. Can anyone see a reason why these should stay separate articles, or why they shouldn't both be merged into the main article (now at E-learning)? Of course I see differences between learning and training, but in this case, I think they are not significantly different enough to merit staying separate - unless someone sees another logical structuring to articles than I do. Cormaggio @ 18:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I think they all would be strengthened by merging the training articles into E-learning. Rfrisbietalk 20:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes

Do you think we have enough yet?! >;-o) Rfrisbietalk 20:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing

I was somewhat surprised to notice the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing didn't have an article about them, so I started one. Please feel free to help expand it and link it to other relevant articles. Rfrisbietalk 19:28, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Here's an example of how I covered the Testing standards in another article. Rfrisbietalk 22:04, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Userbox

Hopefully this will attract people to our project. Any takers? (^'-')^ Covington 07:25, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I made a userbox for the project. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Education/Userbox}} Rfrisbietalk 03:23, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Looks nice. May I suggest having the text stand out more? (^'-')^ Covington 06:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I wanted to match the portal colors, so that meant making the text box the darker color, forcing the text to the lighter color. Working on your request, even pure white seemed hard to read, so I bolded the original color. I hope that's better. Rfrisbietalk 12:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New project template

Now that Category:WikiProject Education exists, I created a new template for talk pages {{WikiProject Education}} that automatically adds the page to the category. Rfrisbietalk 02:27, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I have been working at adding this new template for talk pages. It needs a great deal more work, when I check in the category link. Kukini 16:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Waht are some examples of the work that's needed? Rfrisbietalk 19:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Todo list harmonization

I notice this topic has both the manually updated Template:Education tasks and the mostly-automatically updated Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Education. It might make things easier to maintain if the manually-posted items on both pages were purged. If you tag article with the appropriate attention template, they will show up on the automated list on the next update (as long as the category it is in, or a parent category thereof, is on the "categories covered" list). Comments can be moved to the article's talk page. Then most lines in the template can be updated by simply copying bot updates. Perhaps with some additional programming the template can be automatically updated directly, or perhaps the PNA page can be re-formatted so it can be included directly in Portal:Education. Feel free to drop me a note if you have any questions about or need any help with these lists. -- Beland 02:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Two infoboxes doing the same thing

Would this project's memebrs be so kind as to make a decision on {{Infobox Canadian School}} and {{Infobox Education in Canada}}, both of which are actually school infoboxes? Looks to me like the latter needs to be moved over the former, becaus ethat name is way inappropriate. Circeus 00:32, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

We are actually moving the other way. As of today, no schools use {{Infobox Canadian School}}. See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada#Yet more information and questions on infoboxes for Canadian_schools. We are open to discussion on the choice of name for the template. --Usgnus 18:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shortcut to project page

Isn't there a shortcut to the project page? For example, WP:USRD redirects to Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads, so shouldn't there be one for Education, such as WP:EDUCATION or WP:EDU? (WP:ED redirects to Wikipedia:Experimental Deletion) In fact, I will create the shortcuts right now. --Geopgeop 22:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for doing this, Geopgeop. Cormaggio @ 09:56, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the week

Just thought I should mention here that School is the current Collaboration of the week - knock yourselves out!

(I'm just concentrating for the moment on getting Wikiversity set up, as well as work for my bricks-and-mortar institution - sorry for my absence from this WikiProject.)

Cormaggio @ 09:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject:Children and Youth issues/Studies

I'm currently trying to kick-start an overdue wiki project on issues in politics and sociology (and other areas if there are enough controbutors) which relate directly to children and youth. Currently many of the pages such as Youth rights, listed here, are in a dire need of an overhaul.

Would anyone here be interested in collaborating? I was pleased to see that alternative education had it's own project, and would appreciate any help in getting a wider children & youth project going.

Proposal is here: [1]--Cooper-42 15:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Version 1.0 assessments

I set up the basic template, classification categories, and page for the Version 1.0 assessments. For more information about Version 1.0, see WP:1.0, WP:WVWP and this project's assessment page. Rfrisbietalk 16:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging talk pages and assessing articles

Wikipedia Assessments within AWB. Click on the image to see it in better resolution
Wikipedia Assessments within AWB. Click on the image to see it in better resolution

Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you.

The plugin has two main modes of operation:

  • Tagging talk pages, great for high-speed tagging
  • Assessments mode, for reviewing articles (pictured)

As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify.

For more information see:

Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. --Kingboyk 12:32, 20 September 2006 (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 21:22, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Professor

  • I have created a preliminary infobox for professors. The bare template with usage instructions can be found for now at User:Chabuk/Sandbox, and a filled out example can be seen at User:Chabuk/Sandbox2. Please let me know what you think, what improvements can be made, if there are any fields that I've left out, etc, etc. Thanks! -- Chabuk 18:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Since no one seems to have any comments, I'll assume we're okay with it and I'll add it to the main project page tomorrow. -- Chabuk 04:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] STSE

A large, new article Science, Technology, Society and Environment Education has so far had effectively just one editor. Could people with knowledge please look at it? -- RHaworth 12:35, 14 November 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 22:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Would like to participate - serious newbie

Hello --- I would like to participate in the WikiProject Education, but as I'm very much a Wikipedia Newbie, I humbly ask your patience and guidance in how to do so appropriately.

My primary interest is in the area of special education, learning disabilities, and related topics. I don't see this topic area mentioned in WikiProject Education, but it seems to me that it would be appropriately included here. Of course, it's possible that the topic has already been categorized elsewhere.

Is this the right place for special education and related topics?

Thank you.

smoran 16:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing topics list

I've collected a short missing topics list about subjects related to education. I wonder if anyone could have a time to have a look at it to see if I've failed to find any equivalent articles - Skysmith 12:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Evolutionary educational psychology

Hi. Would anyone care to rate the article, evolutionary educational psychology? EPM 18:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help needed on Special education - also, request for assessment of proper categorization

There is an ongoing debate on the Special education article that would benefit greatly from the input of knowledgeable editors. I've been trying to manage the disagreements between editors, but the subject matter is out of my area of expertise. References to reputable sources are especially needed. Also, I would like to bring up the possibility of re-categorizing Special education in the Education category, rather than the Alternative education category. In particular, the Alternative education article makes no mention of including special education and it is unclear how it could fit in. Nposs 03:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] James G. Carter

Hi education people. I know very little about the history of education but about a week ago I stumbled across a newly created article James G. Carter, a person I had never heard of. The article at the time consisted of a few sentences. I did a little research and have been able to add some references and a bit of information. Mr Carter seems to be a somewhat neglected figure in the history of education. Since I'm no expert in the field and not even a member of this project I'd like some help with the article if possible. At least a review and comments on my talk page would be welcome.

Thanks. - Dan D. Ric 21:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Education in Bangladesh, please, help

I have started working on the article Education in Bangladesh. It was in an extremely bad shape. The last few edits were turning it into a motley hotchpotch of text, link and image for private university/English medium agenda-pushers. Even without that the article had little content. I have began by putting in an enormous amount of fresh text, and even more massive amount of resource links (Banglapedia, government sites and downloadable pdf links). Now the real work should begin. Would you lend a hand in this? I can't do it alone. Do you have anyone else in mind who might help? That person doesn't need to be Bangladeshi. Aditya Kabir 18:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC) - please, answer to my talk page

[edit] My Article

Nuclear froggy 18:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC) I've created an article - F1 In Schools I came across your WikiProject, and if it's any help to you my article is education based. Are these the kind of articles you're looking for?

[edit] re: Teacher in role

This article needs the attention of someone who knows the subject. There was a lenghty 'how-to' section that I removed but the article seems to have been written by a non-native English speaker. I could do a basic cleanup but if someone here would look at it first I would appreciate it. If the subject is covered I will do the cleanup, just let me know. Thanks!--killing sparrows 05:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Education in Bangladesh

Is it possible to have some collaborative effort applied to the article Education in Bangladesh? I have amassed a number of links that can be used as references, and put together a basic structure along with poorly written text. But, it needs a lot more. If anyone is interested the article page itself may be able to provide significant support for expansion and cleanup. All it needs is a little collaboration. Thanks. Aditya Kabir 18:12, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project Tagging for Assessment

Hi - I have been working with others to assess school pages. There are several thousand now done. I mention that because the Education priject has several hundred unassessed pages ... most of which are schools. Seems crazy to have a sub-project to assess schools and then add them to your list too. Question: If a page has an Education template and a schools template then we can do one of three things

  • ignore it - that's what has been happening
  • fill it out with identical assessments (gives a wonderful feeling of "doing something" but ....)
  • delete the education template

I believe we need to do the latter. (I notice that most of the schools that have been in both lists are from Ohio so it may be possible to delete these quickly)Victuallers 13:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Made arbitrary decision being as no reply here. All schools do not have an EDucation template. Prepare to see the number of Education articles fall. Victuallers 17:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools) reformed

I've reformed Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools). It's a slightly different proposal based on more recent discussions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools. This naming convention would not actually affect any of the WP Education articles, I believe, but input from the parent project would be appreciated. Miss Mondegreen talk  15:04, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of education

Could someone here take a look at this article? It's an important article. It's a complete mess. --Steven J. Anderson 21:34, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Sustainable development Portal

I recently started The Sustainable development Portal and offered it up for portal peer review to help make it a feature portal down the road. Please feel free to to help improve the portal and/or offer your input at the portal peer review. Thanks. RichardF 02:22, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The Sustainable development Portal now is a Featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. RichardF 02:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging UK School Infoboxes

I've proposed reducing the number of infoboxes for British schools on the WikiProject Schools Talkpage. (chgallen 20:45, 1 June 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Testing conversation

There is an AfD and merger happening on Tests in the United States, List of standardized tests in the United States and List of admissions tests in the United States. FYI. - Freechild 18:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Academic grading in North America

This page is in horrible shape right now. I've added the project banner to the talk page, but am bringing it up here, because this article is very very bad. It has no references, and I doubt half of the information on the page. It seems to be a hodgepodge of every student's experience with grading, adding some obscure method every which way, and it's impossible to sort out what's credible. It'd be great if someone could find some statistics about how widely these scales are used. --YbborTalk 00:35, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Group of editors looking for a home

Hi,

Several editors have been working on the Dyslexia page, and it has become clear that the article needs to be broken up into a series of articles. There are also many articles that feed into and branch off of the dyslexia topic.

I put out a proposal to create a child WikiProject for "dyslexia and related topics" at the WikiProject Council (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Dyslexia, related conditions and topics), and there are 6 people who have signed up officially as interested. There's also at least 3 others who have been working on the page periodically who might be willing to add their names when we actually have a project page up and ready to go.

Would WikiProject Education be willing to be the project parent of our group? I'm not sure what all this entails as I'm new to WikiProjects, but I think there is some initial setup required.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Rosmoran 20:50, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Echo

Left messages in places and found no answer.... Education can feel lonely sometimes. There is an active group in sub project "Schools" ... if you don't get an answer here then come and talk. Remember if there is no answer ... then the house is empty. And you can have a party! Victuallers 21:08, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A lost Bot ?

It looks to me the our Bot has lost it place for maintaining the list of articles needing attention. There are currently two separate lists, one of which is probably out of date and should be deleted, but I do not know how to decide which is which, both begin with the heading:

— Do not add text below this point — followed by:
  • Cleanup needed (updated by bot)

Dbiel (Talk) 04:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review requested

Hi. Ruth Kelly is up for peer review here. Your comments are welcome. SP-KP 18:30, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject School Years

Hi, I've just spotted the inactive Wikipedia:WikiProject School Years - thought you might like to assimilate it into this one. I can't see any objections if you want it.

Good luck, –MDCollins (talk) 01:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of medical schools in the United Kingdom at FLC

I've nominated List of medical schools in the United Kingdom for featured list status here. Feel free to comment. CloudNine 11:14, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Education/School naming task force

I have marked this page as historical as it is no longer active or maintained; it was created as part of WP:NC(S) which is currently a rejected guideline. Camaron1 | Chris 16:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NC(S)

I have re-started the proposal for a guideline on naming conventions for school articles. I would like your input at WT:NC(S). Camaron1 | Chris 17:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elementary School InfoBox

Why did you delete the Elementary School InfoBox? I have wrote an article about an elementary school that could use an infobox. --Nick4404 20:12, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. schools)

Following a discussion at WT:NC(S), a new proposal has been created for naming conventions applying purely to United States school articles, in a attempt to more easily gain consensus for adoption. Some input from the community at WT:NC(USS) would be great. Camaron1 | Chris 17:23, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

We are currently having a discussion on this proposed naming conventions guideline for United States schools at WT:NC(USS) to see where consensus and problems are, please feel free to participate. Camaron1 | Chris 18:14, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Education Infobox

Has anyone created a school district infobox? There is a school district that needs one.

This is how I'd like it to go:

Infobox SchoolDistrict | name = {{{districtname}}} | image ={{{image.jpg}}} | motto = {{{motto}}} | established = {{{year_est}}} | type = {{{public_or_private}}} | superintendant = {{{superintendent}}} | county = {{{county}}} | state = {{{state}}} | country = {{{country}}} | schools ={{{number_of_schools}}} | typesofschools = {{{elementary_middle_etc}}} | students = {{{number_of_students}}} | membersonboard= {{{number_of_members}}} | colors = {{{colors}}} | homepage = {{{website}}}


I tried creating it, but it didn't work. Can someone help? --Kevin 17:55, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Looks fairly good. You may want to consider some international terms when try to identify location such as
|local jurisdiction
|province
|subdivision
|region
|district
|Administrative unit [Amt (subnational entity)] another term for county
Note: these are in no specific order, just a list of terms used in other infobox templates to identify location. Dbiel (Talk) 19:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


Thanks. How do I go about creating the infobox?--Kevin (talk) 03:49, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coverage

Does WP:EDUCATION cover all schools in the world. I was thinking about adding all articles from WP:Education in Australia to this project, but wasnt sure if schools are in the projects scope. Thanks. Twenty Years 13:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notice of List articles

Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me).

This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 20:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] WP:EDUCATION Scope

I am proposing that the scope of WP:EDUCATION be altered slightly to give the project a clear guide as to which articles are to be part of the project, and which are not. I am proposing that all articles in Category:Education be part of WP:EDUCATION, and to include that in our "Scope" section, alongside the idea of standardising content related to education. Thoughts? Twenty Years 17:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

This seems like a very reasonable idea. The scope is too wide and unclear at the moment. I spoke too late. Seems it's already been done! :) Roobz (talk) 03:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Reform mathematics

Could one of you pedagogical experts look at this article? It has NPOV problems, reads like a screed against standards-based math, refers to no other approaches. I don't know anything about the issue or I'd do it. --ChetvornoTALK 20:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Certified Fraud Examiner

An article I monitor Certified Fraud Examiner was just tagged as part of this project. I have no problem with the tag, if it is appropriate... it just doesn't seem to fit, IMHO, the banner of Education. The CFE designation is similar to the CPA. It is a professional designation---the only tie that I can see is that it requires continuing education to maintain.Balloonman (talk) 17:50, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Education of the Public

I'm trying to find a article about governments educating the public about new developments. For example, when a new recycling program is started up, there needs to be public education about what can be recycled. This would cover information on new diseases and other medical information, new emergency response procedures (e.g. when 9-1-1 was standardised), war-time programs, etc. The Public education article itself focuses entirely on "public schools" and my other searches didn't came up empty. Any ideas? --jwandersTalk 19:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I think a good chance is looking in Category:Education by subject, where there are such sub-categories as Category:Environmental education and Category:Medical education. Hope this helps. Thanks. Twenty Years 00:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
You almost certainly want to look more in a Communication / Public Relations direction (rather than "education"). The goal of Public Relations (as I understand it) is to create and support relationships between an organization and everyone else...that often includes making sure that everyone else gets information from the organization. I know PR is often thought to just be making the organization look good, but it really should include what you've described. --216.62.101.13 (talk) 17:07, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Estey Hall

I don't know where to post new articles, so I'll just post here. I'm not sure if you want this article in your project, but I just created it and tagged it. Feel free to read over it and decide if you want it in your project. Cheers. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 11:59, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] WikiProject Education: Articles of unclear notability

Hello,

there are currently 25 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Leonard Hall (Shaw University)

I'm not sure if your project recognizes FA, GA, and DYKs, but this article was a DYK today. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 18:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

How can I get an article assessed? I want to get JROTC assessed by this WikiProject. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 20:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment - Business-education partnerships

Hello, it has been recommended that I get some feedback on my wikipedia article Business-education partnerships. My wiki watcher, Ed Johnson, has recommended this and I was asked to leave a note here for that purpose. Thanks for the feedback. My course finishes today so feedback soon would be appreciated. Sandra --Sanhealy (talk) 19:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Educators Infobox Template

Does this WikiProject have a template it uses for educators, and not just educational institutions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kkarma (talk • contribs) 03:12, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

None? kkarma 05:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Person could be used for the purpose Dbiel (Talk) 02:18, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peace College Main Building

New article I created and tagged it with your project. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 11:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Getting It: The psychology of est is up at WP:FAC

Getting It: The psychology of est is up at WP:FAC, comments would be appreciated. FAC discussion page is here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Getting It: The psychology of est. Cirt (talk) 07:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

The FAC nom for this was restarted. Comments would be appreciated at the FAC discussion page. Cirt (talk) 18:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Schools in (state name)

I have been doing a lot of category work keeping parent categories Category:Education and Category:Schools organized. One section of the categorization plan is a real mess and I would like some feed back on how best to clean it up.

Category:Education in the United States has a subcategory Category:United States education by state that is populated with a separate subcategory for each state.

Category:Schools in the United States now has a subcategory Category:Schools in the United States by state but it is populated by only a hand full of state sub category and they formated very inconsistantly.

I was starting to add the missing categories but would like to know how best to do it.

  • Make them all redirect categories?
  • Use all 4 of the above categories? or only the first two.

We do need some kind of consistancy.

I created a work page for adding the new categories at User:Dbiel/Category:Schools in the United States by state using Category:United States education by state as the guide

Any thoughts on the subject? Dbiel (Talk) 02:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of homeschooled individuals

List of homeschooled individuals has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of homeschooled individuals (2nd nomination). Five Years 13:03, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Summer camps

Category:Summer camps is listed as being a part of this project, but it seems to be an orphan. Summer camps are often privately-owned, for-profit businesses while others are operated by religious or cultural groups. Many of the articles are either promotional or unverifiable. A template would be helpful. Some articles should probably be AfD'd or pruned severely. Gindling Hilltop Camp and Shambhala Sun Summer Camp are two examples of problems. Is anyone interested in doing a mini-project on summer camps? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 07:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)