{
  "schemaVersion": "1.1.0",
  "canonicalId": "khaemenes.academic.continuum",
  "title": "Khaemenes Academic Continuum",
  "description": "Shared public academic information contract for a free-to-learn Khaemenes educational continuum from early learning through advanced and research-level study, including direct adult entry into Higher Learning.",
  "status": "active",
  "effectiveDate": "2026-08-16",
  "access": {
    "learningAccess": "free-to-learn",
    "publicCourseAccessGoal": true,
    "courseMaterialsGoal": "open public access wherever rights, privacy, safety, and technical requirements permit",
    "credentialHonesty": "Internal course records, assessments, portfolios, certificates, and completion records must not be described as externally accredited credentials unless that status has been independently established."
  },
  "authority": {
    "liveOwner": "Khaemenes Academy shared integration",
    "subjectOwnershipRule": "Each academic subject owns its discipline-specific continuum and standards.",
    "courseOwnershipRule": "Each course owns its lessons, sequence, assessments, local records, and course-specific mastery decisions.",
    "sharedRule": "The Academic Continuum coordinates public metadata, learning-stage vocabulary, subject discovery, evidence principles, accessibility expectations, and cross-disciplinary interoperability.",
    "archiveRule": "ARSHIF preserves dated historical snapshots and is not a live runtime dependency."
  },
  "learningStages": [
    {"id": "pre-k", "label": "Pre-K / Creche", "order": 1},
    {"id": "kindergarten", "label": "Kinder Garden", "order": 2},
    {"id": "elementary", "label": "Elementary", "order": 3},
    {"id": "middle", "label": "Middle School", "order": 4},
    {"id": "high", "label": "High School", "order": 5},
    {"id": "higher", "label": "Higher Learning", "order": 6},
    {"id": "research", "label": "Advanced / Research", "order": 7}
  ],
  "entryModes": [
    {
      "id": "k12-progression",
      "label": "K–12 progression",
      "entryStage": "pre-k",
      "nextStageAfterGrade12": "higher",
      "rule": "Completion of Grade 12 may transition the learner into Higher Learning without inventing Grade 13 or rewriting prior placement history."
    },
    {
      "id": "adult-direct-entry",
      "label": "Adult direct entry",
      "entryStage": "higher",
      "rule": "An adult may begin a self-directed Academy learner identity directly at Higher Learning with no K–12 grade assignment. Adult account authority and learner identity remain linked but distinct."
    },
    {
      "id": "returning-learner",
      "label": "Returning learner",
      "entryStage": "higher",
      "rule": "A returning learner may enter foundational, GED, career, collegiate, or advanced study according to current preparation rather than chronological age."
    }
  ],
  "institutionalPrinciples": [
    "Learning should remain accessible without lowering academic standards.",
    "A course must clearly distinguish instruction, practice, assessment, evidence, interpretation, and certification.",
    "AI assistance must not erase learner authorship or falsely certify mastery.",
    "Sources, computation, observation, experiment, argument, and proof should retain their distinct evidentiary roles.",
    "Accessibility, privacy, local-first resilience, and exportable learner records are preferred design properties.",
    "Shared infrastructure must not become a single point of failure for course access.",
    "Public educational interfaces should not expose private implementation architecture.",
    "Adult learners are scholars in their own right and are not assigned artificial K–12 grade labels solely because they begin later in life."
  ],
  "subjects": [
    {
      "subjectId": "mathematics",
      "title": "Mathematics",
      "status": "candidate-live",
      "continuumId": "khaemenes.mathematics.continuum",
      "continuumPath": "/Khaemenes_Academy.github.io/shared-integration/mathematics/khaemenes-mathematics-continuum.json",
      "spans": ["pre-k", "kindergarten", "elementary", "middle", "high", "higher", "research"],
      "referenceConsumer": "KH-HL-AGTGMP"
    },
    {"subjectId": "science", "title": "Science", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "language-arts", "title": "Language Arts & Literature", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "social-studies", "title": "Social Studies, History & Civics", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "computer-science", "title": "Computer Science & Computing", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "engineering", "title": "Engineering & Design", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "health-medicine", "title": "Health, Medicine & Human Sciences", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "law-governance", "title": "Law, Governance & Public Institutions", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "linguistics-languages", "title": "Linguistics & Languages", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "visual-arts", "title": "Visual Arts & Design", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "music", "title": "Music & Sound Studies", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "philosophy", "title": "Philosophy, Logic & Ethics", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "economics-finance", "title": "Economics, Finance & Enterprise", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "education", "title": "Education & Learning Sciences", "status": "planned"},
    {"subjectId": "interdisciplinary", "title": "Interdisciplinary & Independent Study", "status": "planned"}
  ],
  "sharedAcademicClouds": [
    {
      "id": "academic-context-cloud",
      "purpose": "Expose public-safe current learning context across subjects and stages.",
      "mustNot": ["override course curriculum", "invent completion", "expose private implementation"]
    },
    {
      "id": "academic-resource-cloud",
      "purpose": "Match approved public learning resources to subject, stage, lesson, evidence mode, and accessibility needs.",
      "mustNot": ["treat resource availability as academic endorsement without course context", "route learners into private implementation"]
    },
    {
      "id": "academic-evidence-cloud",
      "purpose": "Preserve distinctions among scores, learner work, sources, observations, calculations, experiments, arguments, proofs, and reflections.",
      "mustNot": ["auto-certify complex mastery", "merge unlike evidence types into a misleading status"]
    },
    {
      "id": "academic-continuity-cloud",
      "purpose": "Support learner progression and portable records across schools and subjects without replacing the central identity authority.",
      "mustNot": ["silently rewrite historical records", "create a competing learner identity"]
    }
  ],
  "subjectContract": {
    "requiredFields": ["subjectId", "continuumId", "stages", "disciplinePractices", "evidencePrinciples", "courseContract"],
    "recommendedFields": ["strands", "publicTools", "miniClouds", "prerequisiteModel", "researchPractice"],
    "gracefulFallback": "Courses remain usable when shared subject or academic metadata is unavailable."
  },
  "courseContract": {
    "requiredFields": ["courseId", "subjectId", "stage", "title"],
    "permanentIdRule": "A course uses one permanent courseId across lessons, assessments, exports, labs, evidence records, and resource discovery.",
    "masteryHonesty": "A course may only certify the forms of mastery its evidence actually supports.",
    "learnerVoice": "Learner-created reasoning and work should remain distinguishable from mentor, tool, or source contributions."
  },
  "higherLearningBridge": {
    "stage": "higher",
    "academyRegistryVersion": "1.2.0",
    "adultSelfDirectedSupported": true,
    "grade12ProgressionSupported": true,
    "publicEntry": "https://vervenveda.com/Khaemenes_Higher_Learning.github.io/start/",
    "adultEnrollment": "https://vervenveda.com/Khaemenes_Academy.github.io/adult/enroll/",
    "identityRule": "Higher Learning reuses the canonical Academy learner identity and must not create a competing learner identity merely because the learner is an adult or has completed Grade 12."
  },
  "referenceImplementation": {
    "subjectId": "mathematics",
    "courseId": "KH-HL-AGTGMP",
    "title": "Advanced Geometric Topology, Global Geometry & Mathematical Physics",
    "purpose": "First end-to-end reference course used to validate shared academic architecture at the furthest current mathematics level."
  },
  "archive": {
    "archiveRepository": "vervenveda/Arshif.github.io",
    "archiveIsRuntimeDependency": false
  }
}