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Civics Central    Standards   Italicized links open in a new window

During the course of our two-year study, we looked at standards (click here for a definition) that have been developed for Civics educators.  As we are in California, schools in our districts are bound by the California standards, but the others are also worthy of a look.

• The California Standards for History and Social Science

In Appendix C of our study report, we present a synopsis of the California Standards relevant to civics education.

The California Standards were developed to implement the California History-Social Science Framework (a two megabyte Acrobat PDF file which will be slow to download with a dialup connection).  An HTML version (faster to access via dialup) is available at http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/sub_standards/cal_hist_socsci_frame_stan.html

You may download the California Standards as an Acrobat PDF file, by clicking this link.

• The National Standards for Civics and Government

• the McRel Civics Standards