Virginia standards alignment

• GOVT.10a

  Covered

  analyzing legislative, executive, and judicial branches

  Covered by

  • Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches of Virginia government
  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 3 · The Governor who cannot serve two terms in a row
  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 4 · How Virginia chooses its judges (elected by the Legislature)

  Note: Virginia's own three branches are taught in depth: the General Assembly (House of Delegates and Senate), the plural executive with the nation's only one-consecutive-term governor, and a judiciary whose judges are elected by the Legislature itself.

• GOVT.10b

  Covered

  explaining the law-making process at the state and local levels

  Covered by

  • Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 5 · How a bill becomes a Virginia law (and why there's no citizen initiative)
  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 1 · Virginia's constitution and 'the Commonwealth'

  Note: How a bill becomes a Virginia law — including the Governor's distinctive power to propose amendments and send a bill back — and, because Virginia has no citizen initiative, the two-sessions-plus-a-referendum path to amend the Constitution of Virginia.

• GOVT.10c

  Covered

  examining the structure and powers of local governments (county, city, and town)

  Covered by

  • Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 6 · Local government: Dillon's Rule and Virginia's independent cities

  Note: Virginia's distinctive local map is the lesson: 95 counties plus 38 independent cities that belong to no county, and the town-versus-city distinction the standard names exactly.

• GOVT.10f

  Covered

  investigating and explaining the ways individuals and groups exert influence on state and local governments

  Covered by

  • Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 7 · Elections, redistricting, and how to take part

  Note: The flagship closes on exactly this: contacting your Delegate and Senator in the short Richmond session, showing up at county boards of supervisors and city councils, and running for reachable local offices.

• GOVT.3b

  Covered

  evaluating the purposes for government stated in the Preamble

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why

  Note: The Preamble is worked clause by clause as the purposes of government — the whole of the standard.

• GOVT.3c

  Covered

  defining the structure and authority of the national government as outlined in Article I, Article II, and Article III

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article

  Note: Articles I-III and the branch relationships they create are taught directly.

• GOVT.3d

  Covered

  examining the differences between the powers and authority of state and national governments

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · 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

  Note: Federalism worked in full: why power is split, and the enumerated/implied/reserved/concurrent taxonomy with McCulloch v. Maryland.

• GOVT.3e

  Covered

  connecting the fundamental principles of checks and balances and separation of powers to the three branches of government

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power

  Note: Separation of powers and checks and balances are taught head-on, tied to the three branches.

• GOVT.3f

  Covered

  describing how the Bill of Rights affirms natural rights as something that precedes politics

  Covered by

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

  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)

  Note: The Bill of Rights as a document and what it protects — taught both in the general rights course and the constitution course.

• GOVT.4e

  Covered

  evaluating how the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect freedoms and limit government

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • 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
  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · 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: Both halves: how the Constitution limits government (separation of powers, checks and balances) and how the Bill of Rights protects freedoms — including when government may and may not constitutionally limit a right.

• GOVT.9a

  Covered

  describing the organization, jurisdiction, and proceedings of federal courts

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court

  Note: The federal judiciary from district courts to the Supreme Court, its independence, and the checks on it.

• GOVT.9b

  Covered

  explaining how the Marshall Court established the Supreme Court as an independent branch of government in Marbury v. Madison

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: Judicial review is taught by name, through Marbury v. Madison.

• GOVT.9c

  Covered

  describing how the Supreme Court decides cases

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court

  Note: How the Court writes an opinion — majority, concurrence, dissent — and how precedent works and expands rights over time.

• GOVT.11b

  Covered

  explaining the purpose of the Bill of Rights, with emphasis on First Amendment freedoms

  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

  Note: The Bill of Rights and the First Amendment freedoms — speech, religion, press, assembly — taught as landmark cases a student can apply (Tinker, Brandenburg), including at school and online.

• GOVT.11e

  Covered

  evaluating the balance between individual liberties and the public interest

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · 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: When government may constitutionally limit a right, and why — time-place-manner, incitement, school speech, reasonable suspicion — is exactly this balance.

• GOVT.10d

  Partially covered

  analyzing the relationship between state and local governments and the roles of regional authorities, governing boards, and commissions

  Covered by

  • Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 6 · Local government: Dillon's Rule and Virginia's independent cities

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the state-local relationship is taught as Virginia's Dillon's Rule (localities have only the powers the state expressly grants), but the regional authorities, governing boards, and commissions the standard also names are not detailed.

• Skills GOVT c

  Partially covered

  questioning and using inquiry to construct arguments using evidence from multiple sources

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, a 1,200-1,500 word research paper with a required counterargument section
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: multi-source argument construction is modelled throughout and required in the Coffee project's argument paper (with a counterargument section), but graded student practice is limited to that one project.

• Skills GOVT j

  Partially covered

  contextualizing corroborating and evaluating sources for credibility, propaganda, and bias to determine patterns and trends in Virginia and United States government and politics

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
  • · Ep 2 · Reading a Tea Ad
  • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (reading a text for what it leaves out)
  • · Ep 11 · Tiki and the Tropical Paradise
  • · Ep 15 · The Language of Doubt
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: evaluating sources for credibility, propaganda, and bias is a BVC through-line (reading an ad for what it omits, an industry's manufactured doubt, weighing conflicting accounts against each other) — modelled in every episode, graded only in the Coffee project.

• GOVT.1c

  Partially covered

  evaluating the foundational principles expressed in the Constitution of Virginia, the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 1 · Virginia's constitution and 'the Commonwealth'
  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 5 · How a bill becomes a Virginia law (and why there's no citizen initiative)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: why the Articles of Confederation failed and led to the 1787 Constitution, worked article by article, and Virginia's own Constitution of 1971 in the flagship; a document-by-document evaluation that also weighs the Declaration of Independence is not the frame.

• GOVT.2a

  Partially covered

  explaining the concepts of popular sovereignty, natural rights, the rule of law, self-government and “consent of the governed”

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: 'we the people' and the consent of the governed are taught through the Preamble, and the rule of law through the Constitution worked article by article; a dedicated treatment of each named concept (popular sovereignty, natural rights, self-government) is not.

• GOVT.5

  Partially covered

  The student will apply history and social science skills to explain the rights and responsibilities of United States Citizenship

  Covered by

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

  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 1 · Who is a U.S. citizen? Birthright and the 14th Amendment
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 3 · Becoming a citizen: naturalization eligibility
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · 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
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the responsibilities the catalog teaches as practice are strong — paths to citizenship (GOVT.5a), jury service (5c, an entire course), registering and voting (5d), and keeping informed (5f). Obeying the law and paying taxes, public service, personal fiscal responsibility, and Selective Service registration (5b, 5e, 5g, 5h) are not taught.

• GOVT.6c

  Partially covered

  describing the nomination and election process, including the organization and evolving role of political parties and interest groups

  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: Partial: the nomination and election process (registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote, counting and certifying) is taught thoroughly; the evolving role of parties and interest groups is not a systematic thread.

• GOVT.6d

  Partially covered

  analyzing the influence of media coverage, campaign advertising, public opinion polls, social media, and digital communications

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Spotting Misleading Marketing
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

  • · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
  • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
  • · Ep 8 · Reading a Craft Beer Label
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 16 · Reefer Madness and the Language of Fear
  • · Ep 18 · Just Say No
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 3 · Weasel words and what the fine print takes back
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 5 · Fake reviews, astroturfing, and undisclosed #ads
  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: analyzing persuasion and advertising is a BVC strength (Torches of Freedom, reading ads for omission) and the campaign course teaches campaigning lawfully; political public-opinion polling and a general media-influence analysis are not the frame.

• GOVT.6e

  Partially covered

  explaining the role of the Electoral College and the impact of reapportionment and redistricting on elections and governance

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
  • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 7 · Elections, redistricting, and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Electoral College's mechanics and purpose are taught in full, and Virginia's bipartisan Redistricting Commission is taught in the flagship; the general impact of reapportionment on governance is not worked.

• GOVT.7

  Partially covered

  The student will apply history and social science skills to describe the scope and limits of the powers of the federal legislative branch of the U.S. government as delineated in Article I of the Constitution

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: Article I's structure and the complete federal lawmaking process (committees through veto override) are taught; the 'scope and limits' of the enumerated legislative powers are not treated systematically.

• GOVT.8

  Partially covered

  The student will apply history and science skills to describe the powers of the executive branch of the U.S. government as delineated in Article II of the Constitution

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the executive branch is taught as one of the three federal branches and through Article II; how executive power has changed over time (the 20th/22nd/25th Amendments the standard names) is not worked. (Transcribed as printed, including the document's 'history and science skills'.)

• GOVT.11c

  Partially covered

  analyzing the rights of the accused and due process of law expressed in the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendments

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Fourth Amendment (searches, stops, and your digital life — Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, Carpenter) and the limits on rights are taught as applicable rules; a full rights-of-the-accused and due-process treatment is not.

• GOVT.11d

  Partially covered

  explaining how the Supreme Court has applied most of the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states through a process of selective incorporation

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: how Supreme Court precedent expands rights over time is taught; 'selective incorporation' as a named doctrine is not.

• GOVT.11f

  Partially covered

  examining how civil liberties and civil rights are protected under the law

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: how liberties are protected is taught through the landmark rights cases and the limits doctrine; a systematic civil-liberties-versus-civil-rights framework is not.

• GOVT.12c

  Partially covered

  examining the relationship of Virginia and the United States in the global economy, including trends in international trade

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
  • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the United States in the global commodity economy is taught in real depth (value chains, the sugar program's trade barriers, the growing belts that drive trade); Virginia's specific role in the global economy is not.

• GOVT.13a

  Partially covered

  evaluate the economic and political systems of capitalism, communism, Marxism, socialism, fascism, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism

  Covered by

  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
  • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
  • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: reciprocity economies against market economies (directly, at length) and a communist workers' state against the union that unmade it (Solidarność) are taught; a survey of all the named systems is not.

• GOVT.13c

  Partially covered

  comparing and contrasting the role of government in capitalism and socialism as economic systems, including the role of government in each and individual economic freedoms

  Covered by

  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
  • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
  • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the role of government in a market versus a command economy is taught through the reciprocity/market contrast and martial-law Poland; a systematic capitalism-versus-socialism comparison is not.

• GOVT.13e

  Partially covered

  evaluating the factors that influence production and distribution of goods in a market system

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie
  • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
  • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: what moves prices (inelastic demand absorbing a price spike) and where goods can be produced (the growing belts) are taught through commodity markets; a general production-and-distribution unit is not.

• GOVT.13f

  Partially covered

  explaining how competition and free enterprise influence the local, national, and global economies

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods

  • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie
  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: competition and value capture along real commodity chains are taught (the smile curve, who gets paid); a general free-enterprise treatment is not.

• GOVT.14a

  Partially covered

  explaining government’s limited but important role in free enterprise and how that affects individual economic freedoms

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: government's role in a market is taught through the U.S. sugar program (quotas, price supports, tariffs); the effect on individual economic freedoms is implied, not worked.

• GOVT.14c

  Partially covered

  evaluating government’s establishment and maintenance of the rules and institutions in which markets operate, including the establishment and enforcement of property rights, contracts, consumer rights, labor-management relations, environmental protection, and competition in the marketplace

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · 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
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 4 · Two ideas about who a union is for: the Knights and the AFL
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 5 · Haymarket, 1886
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman, and the weapon that actually broke strikes
  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: labor-management relations (the Wagner Act's regime and who it excluded, the Gilded-Age fight that led there) and market rules (the sugar program) are worked; property rights, contracts, consumer rights, and environmental protection are not.

• GOVT.14g

  Partially covered

  evaluating the trade-offs in government decisions

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · Ep 18 · Bolivia's Bet (Bolivia's legal coca model against U.S.-funded eradication)
  • · Ep 18 · The Balloon Effect
  • · Ep 17 · Where the Poppy Grows (Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent)
  • · Ep 16 · The Justice Gap

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: trade-offs in government decisions are taught through the sugar program (intended stable prices, unintended ~$3.5bn/yr consumer cost) and the War on Drugs (the balloon effect); not as a general decision-analysis method.

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 Virginia mathematics standard.
• Virginia's English and Science SOL — deferred, not denied. Virginia writes its own English SOL and its own Science SOL (Virginia is NOT an NGSS state). Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite: the Virginia DOE's standards portal refused our tooling this pass, so these courses carry no Virginia claims yet. The BVC rhetoric, media-literacy, and research-project work that maps to them elsewhere is real; it is the Virginia text we have not yet retrieved from an acceptable source. (The GOVT Skills strand does give our source-evaluation and argument work a genuine home — Skills GOVT c and j above.)
• The civic-identity, comparative-systems, and money-in-politics objectives we do not teach. GOVT.2b-f and GOVT.4a-d (comparing forms of government; Tocqueville's five values; the mottos 'E Pluribus Unum' and 'In God We Trust'; the American Creed) ask for civic-identity content the catalog does not teach. GOVT.3a (The Federalist Papers #10 and #51), GOVT.1d (George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom, Madison's role in the Bill of Rights), GOVT.6a-b/6f (suffrage expansion, campaign finance, gerrymandering), GOVT.9d (originalism vs. judicial activism), GOVT.10e (partisan vs. nonpartisan offices), GOVT.13b/13d (Smith/Marx/Keynes/Hayek/Friedman/Sowell; the Bill of Rights vs. the Communist Manifesto), and GOVT.14b/14d-f (public goods, taxation, fiscal and monetary policy) are named but not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• GOVT.3g (the amendment process) — a real match we cannot cite as printed. GOVT.3g, 'explaining the amendment process', is a genuine match — the catalog teaches both Article V and Virginia's two-sessions-plus-a-referendum path. But the printed clause is under the ~40-character floor the isolation suite enforces to reject paraphrases, and we will not pad it. Virginia's amendment path is instead cited where it has longer standard text to attach to (GOVT.10b, GOVT.1c). The gap is in the citeable grain, not the lesson.