Louisiana standards alignment

• C.10.a

  Covered

  Explain how the U.S. Constitution protects individual liberties and rights.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy

  Note: Know Your Rights teaches what the Bill of Rights protects, the landmark cases as applicable rules, and when government may and may not limit those rights.

• C.10.b

  Covered

  Analyze the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and their application to historical and current issues.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy

  Note: The Bill of Rights is taught as a document and then applied issue by issue — speech, religion, press, assembly, and the Fourth Amendment in a digital age — through Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, and Carpenter.

• C.8.g

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the fundamental principles and concepts of the U.S. government including Creator-endowed unalienable rights of the people, due process, equal justice under the law, equal protection, federalism, frequent and free elections in a representative government, individual responsibility, individual rights, limited government, private property rights, popular sovereignty, right to privacy, rule of law, the supremacy clause, and the separation of powers with checks and balances.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the structural principles are taught in full — federalism, separation of powers with checks and balances, limited government, popular sovereignty, rule of law, and the supremacy clause (through McCulloch v. Maryland). The rights-side principles the expectation lists (due process, equal protection, right to privacy) are taught through the rights courses, not as a principles survey.

• C.9.f

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the reasoning for Supreme Court decisions and their political, social, and economic effects, including Marbury v. Madison (1803); McCulloch v. Maryland (1819); Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831); Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857); Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); Schenck v. United States (1919); Korematsu v. United States (1944); Brown v. Board of Education (1954); Baker v. Carr (1962); Engel v. Vitale (1962); Gideon v. Wainwright (1963); Miranda v. Arizona (1966); Loving v. Virginia (1967); Tinker v. Des Moines (1969); New York Times Co. v. United States (1971); Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972); Roe v. Wade (1973); United States v. Nixon (1974); Shaw v. Reno (1993); United States v. Lopez (1995); Bush v. Gore (2000); McDonald v. Chicago (2010); Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010).

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: several of the listed cases are taught as rules a student can apply — Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Tinker v. Des Moines among them — and how precedent works. The full landmark list the expectation names (Dred Scott, Plessy, Korematsu, Roe, Citizens United, and more) is not covered case by case.

• C.10.c

  Partially covered

  Evaluate restrictions and expansions of civil liberties and civil rights in the United States and the role of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government in related events and developments over time, including the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); the Espionage and Sedition Acts; Schenck v. United States (1919); the Nineteenth Amendment; Executive Order 9066; Executive Order 10730; Brown v. Board of Education (1954); the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the Twenty-Fourth Amendment; and Twenty-Sixth Amendment.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the denial and expansion of civil rights is taught in depth through the Great Migration — the Jim Crow South people fled and the Black urban electorate and civil-rights politics the Migration created — and some rights cases as rules. The specific amendments and cases the expectation lists (the Reconstruction Amendments, Plessy, the Nineteenth Amendment, the 1964 and 1965 Acts) are not each covered.

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 Louisiana mathematics standard (the Louisiana Student Standards for Mathematics, Louisiana's own since it replaced Common Core).
• English Language Arts — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana replaced Common Core with its own Louisiana Student Standards for ELA. Those standards may be Common-Core-derived, but our rule is compare-before-aliasing: we have not fetched and compared the Louisiana ELA document this pass, so we do NOT alias Louisiana onto the shared Common Core file, and we make no Louisiana ELA claim yet. The catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, and argument-writing teaching would be the candidates when it is fetched.
• Science — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana's science is Louisiana's own. Louisiana's science standards (the 2017 Louisiana Student Standards for Science) are NGSS-BASED, but they are Louisiana's own document with Louisiana's own adoption. Blind-aliasing Louisiana onto our shared NGSS file without confirming the codes and text match would violate the rule, so we have not done it; the two Earth-science claims used elsewhere would be the candidates once the Louisiana document is fetched and compared.
• Civics expectations we checked and do NOT claim. C.8.b/c/e/f (comparing systems of government, the Enlightenment philosophers, ratification debates, and natural-rights theory), C.9.d (the executive branch's Cabinet, executive orders, and the 'bully pulpit'), C.9.g/h (constructionist interpretation by name; how governments raise and allocate revenue), C.10.d (equal protection and due process doctrine), C.11.c/g/h/i/j (political parties and interest groups; gerrymandering and turnout; the media's effect on politics — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis; Louisiana's congressional redistricting), C.12.a/c/e (the policy-fields survey; U.S. interactions with other nations; post-WWII international law), C.13.a/c/e/f (Adam Smith and the invisible hand; government-regulation perspectives; market structures and factors of production), and all of C.14 (personal financial literacy) are not genuinely taught by these courses, so we do not claim them.