Tennessee standards alignment

• GC.18

  Covered

  Explain the Electoral College system, and compare and contrast arguments for and against it.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists

  Note: Both halves the standard names — how the Electoral College works, and its original purpose and modern relevance — are taught as separate lessons.

• GC.31

  Covered

  Describe what should be reasonably expected from any citizen or resident of the U.S., and explain why it is important for the well-being of the nation, including: Being informed on civic issues, Obeying the law, Paying taxes, Respecting the rights of others, Serving as a juror, Serving in the military or alternative service, Volunteering and performing public service, Voting.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote

  Note: The responsibilities are taught as practices, not exhortation: voting and registration, jury service (an entire course), staying informed, and civic participation.

• GC.34

  Covered

  Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process, including: Campaigning, Demonstrating, Lobbying, Petitioning, Running for office, Voting.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • How to Run for Office: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote

  Note: Participation is taught as practice at every level — helping a campaign lawfully, running for office, showing up locally, and voting — with the legal guardrails.

• GC.32

  Partially covered

  Explain the role of political parties in the nomination process for presidential candidates and the importance of and difference between primaries, caucuses, and general elections.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lessons 1-3 · registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 7 · Counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 8 · Verify your own registration and rules

  What we do and don't cover: How primaries and caucuses work, and how they differ from general elections, is taught thoroughly. The parties' role in the nomination process is sketched, not traced.

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:

• The flagship's most distinctive Tennessee facts have no Tennessee code to cite. Tennessee Civics teaches, from Tennessee's own sources, the Attorney General appointed by the state Supreme Court (unique in the nation), the Senate Speaker who carries the title 'Lieutenant Governor,' the Secretary of State/Treasurer/Comptroller elected by the Legislature, the unusually weak simple-majority veto override, the 'Tennessee Plan' appointment-then-retention judiciary, the ABSENCE of any citizen initiative, and Tennessee's photo-ID and excuse-required-absentee voting rules. The 2019 standards' Tennessee State and Local Government strand (GC.28–GC.30) reaches Tennessee's branches and its county/city/metro local government, and that is where those lessons are mapped — but the standards do not separately name the Attorney-General arrangement, the weak veto, the no-initiative rule, or the voting specifics, so those flagship details carry no dedicated code. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
• English language arts, mathematics, and science — Tennessee's own, and not fetched. Tennessee withdrew from the Common Core and writes its own Tennessee Academic Standards for ELA and Mathematics, and its own science standards (not the NGSS). Each lives in a separate framework document we did not retrieve this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Tennessee gets no ELA, math, or science claim — even though the catalog's source-evaluation and research work would likely map to Tennessee's ELA literacy standards once fetched.
• The federal-heavy government standards we checked and did not claim. The United States Government and Civics course contains many standards beyond the ones above — GC.01 (European/classical roots), GC.02 (the Declaration's grievances), GC.09 (democracy vs. republic as defined terms), GC.11 (the census, redistricting, Baker v. Carr), GC.12/GC.16/GC.17 (leadership positions and executive departments as named lists), GC.14 (identify your current members of Congress), GC.24 (the Second Amendment), GC.26/GC.27 (the 14th Amendment case menu; Title IX and the ADA), and GC.33 (media's influence on public opinion — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis). The courses do not genuinely teach these as written, so we do not claim them.
• The rest of Economics, World History, and US History we checked. Economics standards on market structures, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy, and macroeconomic measurement (E.16–E.44), and the personal-finance content, are not genuinely taught. World History beyond the two imperialism standards (the World Wars, the Cold War, the Berlin Conference case detail) and US History beyond labor, the Great Migration, Prohibition, and the Harlem Renaissance (American imperialism and the Spanish-American War, the New Deal, the World Wars, the civil-rights movement's full arc) are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.