Arkansas standards alignment

• H.5.USH.3

  Partially covered

  Analyze the expanded role of the federal government's domestic interventions and fiscal policy in response to the Great Depression: New Deal legislation (e.g., Emergency Banking Relief Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Social Security Act, National Labor Relations Act), federal work relief agencies (e.g., Tennessee Valley Authority, Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, Work Progress Administration), changing role of the federal government in the economy (e.g., social security, minimum wage).

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 9 · 1935: the year organizing became a right (the Wagner Act)
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 10 · The hole in the law: who the Wagner Act left out

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the National Labor Relations Act — named in the standard's first bullet — is taught in depth: what the Wagner Act created, and precisely who it excluded. The rest of the New Deal apparatus is not taught.

• H.5.USH.17

  Partially covered

  Analyze the roles of individuals, groups, and events in securing civil rights during the mid-20th century: individuals (e.g., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, Cesar Chavez), groups (e.g., NAACP, Freedom Riders, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), events (e.g., murder of Emmett Till, Brown vs. Board of Education, desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, passage of 24th Amendment, passage of Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, sit-ins, assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.).

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World
  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, from an angle most curricula skip: A. Philip Randolph through the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike (where Dr. King was assassinated — a named event), and the Black urban vote the Migration created. Most of the standard's named individuals, groups, and events are not taught individually.

• H.5.AAH.4

  Partially covered

  Analyze the influence of key African Americans on political and social change since 1950 using primary and secondary sources: civil rights leaders (e.g., Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, A. Philip Randolph, Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, John Lewis), political leaders (e.g., Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Harris, Condelezza Rice, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson), military and science leaders (e.g., Marcelite Harris, Katherine Johnson, Colin Powell, William E. Ward, Lloyd Austin), education and thought leaders (e.g., Langston Hughes, Thomas Sowell, Zora Neale Hurston).

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: A. Philip Randolph — named in the standard — is taught in depth as the labor half of the civil-rights movement, with primary sources pointed to their real archives. The standard's many other named figures are not taught individually.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Arkansas mathematics standard.
• The Arkansas Civics flagship's structure lessons have no Arkansas standard to cite. Arkansas Civics: How Your State Government Works teaches the 1874 constitution, the seven separately elected executives, the nonpartisan ELECTED Supreme Court (Amendment 80), and the quorum-court county system — from Arkansas's own official sources. But Arkansas's 2022 Civics and U.S. Government standards are overwhelmingly FEDERAL: we searched both documents and found no structure-of-Arkansas-government standard for those lessons to meet. The course backs the state halves of C.4.CIV.1 (lawmaking, initiatives) and C.3.CIV.13 (elections); the rest of its Arkansas content has no code to cite. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
• Health — the 2019 standards print no citable codes, and the content does not match. Arkansas's 2019 Health & Safety standards are competency statements ('I can…') organized by domain and level, with no printed codes — and the Grades 9-12 objectives are content-domain statements (nutrition, alcohol/tobacco/drugs, disease prevention, mental health) that our health courses do not teach. Unlike Indiana and Arizona, whose health frameworks carry skill standards for evaluating health information and goal-setting, Arkansas gives our health claims no honest home. We cite none; the goal-setting and product-claims work maps through the PE course frameworks instead, where Arkansas DID write codes.
• Personal finance — nothing. Arkansas bundles personal finance into its Economics course (Act 480/466 requirements). The catalog does not teach personal finance, so we claim no PF standard.
• Arkansas Economics has no home for the reciprocity-economy content. The curriculum contrasts traditional (reciprocity) and market economies directly and at length, but E.3.ECON.1's allocation-method list (price, auction, lottery, first come, contest, fiat) has no gift/reciprocity entry, and no other 2022 Economics standard covers economic systems. That content maps in Arkansas through World Geography's G.3.WG.5 (attitudes toward resources) instead. E.3.ECON.6/7 (degrees of market competition) are rejected for the same reason as Indiana's market-structure standards: named in our lessons, never taught as a unit. E.5.ECON.1 (comparative advantage) is not taught by name.
• Most of the Civics and U.S. Government standards we checked. C.2.CIV.1 and H.5.USH.1 (flag etiquette), C.2.CIV.3 (the seven-ideology comparison), C.2.CIV.4 (the Federalist Papers as rationale), C.3.CIV.2/3/5 (non-citizen roles, citizenship demographics, the Census), C.3.CIV.11 (Arkansas student-law topics), C.3.CIV.12/14/15/16 (parties, PACs, media influence, gerrymandering — our media-literacy course is consumer protection, not political media analysis), C.4.CIV.5/6 (intergovernmental policy conflict; criminal vs. civil law), C.3.USG.1-6 (Enlightenment thinkers and the Declaration as persuasive argument), C.2.USG.6/7/10/12/13 (the Cabinet, the bureaucracy, Full Faith and Credit, fiscal policy), and C.4.USG.3-6 (judicial philosophies and current-issues application) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• U.S. History Since 1929 starts too late for half our labor history. The Gilded Age labor movement (the Knights, Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman), the Triangle fire, and the Great Migration's first decades all predate 1929, so Arkansas's U.S. History course cannot reach them — the window is the course's, not ours. Taft-Hartley (1947) and PATCO (1981) fall inside the window, but H.5.USH.20's policy list does not name labor policy and H.5.USH.22's Reagan-era list does not name PATCO, so we do not claim either. The Migration and Jim Crow map through African-American History, where Arkansas's standards name them.
• World History standards we checked and rejected. H.6.WH.10 (industrialization's development and expansion), H.6.WH.21-24 (World War I and II, the Holocaust), H.6.WH.30-32 (Cold War interdependence, late-20th-century catastrophes and costs of war), and H.6.WH.34 (human-made and natural disasters) — case-study adjacency is not coverage, so we claim none of them.
• PE performance and participation standards — all of them. Every PFL and RS standard that asks a student to DEMONSTRATE motor skill, participate, perform dance, or exhibit behavior during activity (all of Content Standard 1, the participation halves of Standard 3, Standards 4 and 5's in-activity conduct) is out of reach of an online course, however good its knowledge content. We claim knowledge- and planning-side standards only, and we say so on each entry.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Arkansas's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Arkansas claims this pass.