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Hawaii standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Hawaiistandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.

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Read this before you rely on it

  • We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Better Vice Club against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Hawaii's education authority or by anyone else.
  • Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
  • Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
  • We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.

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Hawaii · Social Studies

Hawaiʻi Core Standards in Social Studies — Participation in a Democracy (Grades 9-12)

Hawaiʻi Core Standards in Social Studies (HCSSS, C3-based) · Participation in a Democracy · Grades 9-12 · written by Hawaiʻi educators 2016-2018 · Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) / Hawaiʻi State Board of Education · retrieved 2026-07-19

Hawaii's high-school "Participation in a Democracy" course anchors the Hawaii Civics flagship, but it is a federal/general civics course: its content standards name the U.S. Constitution, the national institutions, landmark Supreme Court cases, and public policy, and its inquiry standards drive source evaluation and civic action. The ONE standard that reaches Hawaii's own participation is SS.PID.5.7.1 (effecting change in the community and state), which hosts the flagship's Hawaii-specific civic actions. Transcribed verbatim from the HIDOE PDF (see the file header for provenance).

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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 Hawaii Civics flagship's structure lessons have no Hawaii code to cite. Hawaii Civics: How Your State Government Works teaches Hawaii's genuinely distinctive structure — the most centralized state government in the nation (four counties and essentially no city or town governments below them; the ONLY state with a single, statewide public-school system), the Constitution of 1959, a compact elected executive (only the Governor and Lieutenant Governor), a Legislature of 25 senators and 51 representatives, a judiciary where the Judicial Selection Commission (not the voters) decides retention, the elected-trustee Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Hawaiian as an official second language — from Hawaii's own official sources. But the HCSSS Participation in a Democracy standards are federal/general: they carry NO standard for a state's own government structure. Only the civic-engagement standard (SS.PID.5.7.1) reaches Hawaii's own participation, so the flagship's structure lessons carry no claim while its civic ACTIONS do. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
  • English/Language Arts — deferred (Hawaii adopted the Common Core, then revised its ELA in 2024). Hawaii adopted the Common Core State Standards for ELA on June 7, 2010, so the shared common-core-ela file would in principle apply. But the Board of Education took committee action on a "Revised Hawaii Common Core Standards for ELA" in April 2024, so Hawaii's current grade 11-12 RH/RI/WHST wording may no longer be verbatim CCSS — exactly the situation that made us transcribe Iowa's and Mississippi's revised ELA rather than alias. We did not fetch and verify Hawaii's current ELA document this pass, and the rule is compare-before-aliasing, so we DEFER the ELA framework rather than blind-alias it. The catalog's source-evaluation and media-literacy work is instead claimed against Hawaii's own social-studies inquiry standards (SS.9-12.2.1, .2.2, .3.1), which we transcribed verbatim.
  • Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Hawaii Common Core mathematics standard.
  • Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Hawaii adopted the NGSS (February 16, 2016), so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
  • The federal-heavy Participation in a Democracy standards we checked and rejected. SS.PID.1.17.1 (classical, natural-rights, and English-common-law philosophy behind the Constitution), SS.PID.1.11.3 (the Hamilton vs. Jefferson debate on federal strength), SS.PID.4.7.1 (policy makers, interest groups, and the media in shaping public policy — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), SS.PID.4.10.2 (the economic functions of government and its social services), and SS.PID.4.16.3 (the global role of the United States, geopolitics, and international economics) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them. The inquiry Anchor 1 (developing compelling and supporting questions) and Anchor 4 (communicating conclusions to a range of audiences) are teaching moves rather than course content here, and are not claimed.
  • Hawaii's other high-school social-studies courses — deferred, not denied. The HCSSS also define World History and Culture (CE 1500 to Present), United States History and Government, and Modern History of Hawaiʻi at grades 9-12. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and migration history WOULD map to several of those courses' standards, as it does in other states. We mapped the Participation in a Democracy course this pass (the flagship's home) and DEFER the World History, U.S. History and Government, and Modern History of Hawaiʻi courses to a later pass rather than claim standards we have not yet transcribed and verified.

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