[Textbook-l] California history text standards

Wed Aug 6 00:39:10 UTC 2003

http://www.cde.ca.gov/standards/history/

We're focussing on grades 9, 10, 11, and 12.

The titles of the content standards are:

Grade 9 -- no standards, schools are supposed to offer electives

Grade 10 -- World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

Grade 11 -- United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change
in the Twentieth Century

Grade 12 -- Principles of American Democracy and Economics

I think it is pretty clear, and a conversation with LittleDan has
further convinced me, that our expertise lies best in Grade 10 --
World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World.

Here's the link:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/standards/history/grade10.html

and similar for Florida:
http://www.firn.edu/doe/curriculum/crscode/basic612/912/ss912/2109310.pdf

although the actual "Instructional Materials Specifications" for
Florida are apparently buried here:
http://www.firn.edu/doe/instmat/pdf/social_studies.pdf
(see page 189, which is Adobe page 198)

As you can see, these are detailed specifications, and we should
probably be able to write to it with a fair degree of success.

A "ToDo" list on this would include making sure that this is the right
document to work from, and also to look on the web to see if Texas
standards can be found as well.

And any other states or countries that anyone has a particular
interest in, of course.

(For example, are there published content standards for courses in
Australia and Great Britain, etc.?)

--Jimbo