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Texas standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Texasstandard 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.

16
standards mapped
10
fully covered
6
partially covered
6
frameworks

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  • 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 Texas'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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Texas · Social Studies

TEKS for Social Studies — United States Government (§113.44)

One-Half Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17

Texas's required one-semester United States Government course is the culmination of its K-12 civic and governmental content. Its standards are overwhelmingly about the FEDERAL system; two, however — (d)(7)(H) comparing national, state, and local governments and (d)(9)(A) methods of filling offices at all three levels — name state and local government explicitly, and that is where Texas Civics (the flagship, written from Texas's own sources) is mapped, alongside the general civics ladder. Texas's dedicated STATE-government instruction sits in Grade 7 Texas History (§113.20, middle school), which we have not fetched; see notClaimed.

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Texas · Social Studies

TEKS for Social Studies — World Geography Studies (§113.43)

One Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17

World Geography Studies is where the BVC Commodity Map maps most fully: the course examines people, places, and environments and how location shapes economic activity in different economic systems — exactly the curriculum's spine. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.

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Texas · Social Studies

TEKS for Social Studies — World History Studies (§113.42)

One Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17

World History Studies is where the BVC series' colonial and commodity history maps — conquest and the Columbian Exchange, the Atlantic slave trade, European imperialism, and the collapse of communism. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.

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Texas · Social Studies

TEKS for Social Studies — United States History Studies Since 1877 (§113.41)

One Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17

United States History Studies Since 1877 is where the catalog's American labor, migration, and civil-rights history maps — the union movement, the Great Migration, the civil-rights era, NAFTA, and Prohibition. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.

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Texas · Social Studies

TEKS for Social Studies — Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System (§113.31)

One-Half Credit · Adopted 2022 · effective August 1, 2024 (19 TAC ch. 113, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17

Texas's required Economics course is filed in the social studies department (recommended for Grade 12). The BVC series supplies three of its standards — price behavior, trade and trade barriers, and evaluating economic sources — through real commodity markets. Codes are Texas's own TEKS, transcribed verbatim.

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Texas · English/Language Arts

TEKS for English Language Arts and Reading — English II (§110.37)

One Credit · Adopted 2017 · amended effective August 1, 2019 (19 TAC ch. 110, subch. C) · Texas Education Agency (TEA) / State Board of Education (SBOE) · retrieved 2026-07-17

Texas writes its own ELA TEKS (English I-IV); the codes are Texas's own, never Common Core. English II (grade 10) is used here as the representative high-school course — its author's-craft, response, and inquiry strands are where the catalog's media literacy, rhetoric, and research work maps. English I, III, and IV carry parallel standards; see notClaimed.

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  • §110.37(c)(11)(G)

    Covered
    examine sources for: (i) credibility and bias, including omission; and (ii) faulty reasoning such as incorrect premise, hasty generalizations, and either-or;

    Covered by

    • · 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 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
    • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
    • · 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
    • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
    • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

    Note: Reading a text for bias including omission is the media-literacy method run in every episode, and identifying fallacious reasoning is taught by name (Reefer Madness, Doubt Is Our Product).

  • §110.37(c)(7)(E)

    Partially covered
    analyze characteristics and structural elements of argumentative texts such as: (i) clear arguable claim, appeals, and convincing conclusion; (ii) various types of evidence and treatment of counterarguments, including concessions and rebuttals; and (iii) identifiable audience or reader; and

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, a 1,200-1,500 word research paper with a required counterargument section
    • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
    • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
    • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

    What we do and don't cover: Argumentative structure — claim, evidence, and a required counterargument section — is exactly the Coffee project's Option D, and arguments are evaluated for validity throughout. But the composing side is one optional project in one episode, not a writing programme.

  • §110.37(c)(11)(H)

    Partially covered
    display academic citations, including for paraphrased and quoted text, and use source materials ethically to avoid plagiarism; and

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, 3+ peer-reviewed sources and an APA bibliography
    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option C, interview ethics: informed consent, right to review
    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, climate-vulnerability report, 3+ peer-reviewed sources, APA bibliography
    • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, primary-source research paper with an APA bibliography

    What we do and don't cover: The Coffee project requires authoritative sources, an APA bibliography, and interview ethics (informed consent). Only the Coffee episode currently ships such a project, so we claim it for what it is.

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 and Personal Financial Literacy — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Texas mathematics TEKS. It also does no personal-finance instruction, so the Personal Financial Literacy strands of Economics (§113.31(d)(15)-(20)) and the standalone Personal Financial Literacy course (§113.49) are not claimed.
  • Science — Texas is NOT an NGSS state, and we did not fetch its science TEKS. Texas writes its own science TEKS (19 TAC Chapter 112), not the Next Generation Science Standards. This catalog has no laboratory work, investigations, or modelling, and we did not fetch the Texas science standards this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Texas gets no science claim — unlike Arizona, where we fetched the document and found two Earth-science partials.
  • Grade 7 Texas History (§113.20) — where the flagship's fullest home lives, not yet fetched. Texas's dedicated instruction on the Texas Constitution, the plural executive, Texas's courts, and Texas local government sits in Grade 7 Texas History (§113.20, Subchapter B, middle school). That is the natural 1:1 home for Texas Civics. We mapped the flagship into the high-school United States Government course's national/state/local comparison standards ((d)(7)(H), (d)(9)(A)) this pass, honestly as partial, and defer §113.20 to a later pass rather than cite standards we have not read.
  • Texas has no citizen-initiative standard, because Texas has no citizen initiative. A distinctive flagship lesson is that Texas has NO statewide citizen initiative — only the Legislature may propose constitutional amendments. Arizona's and California's standards reward teaching their direct-democracy tools; Texas's do not, because there is nothing of the kind to teach. So that lesson, though central to understanding Texas, maps to no TEKS and we claim none for it. The gap is in Texas's government, correctly reflected in its standards.
  • Most of the United States Government federal-heavy standards. §113.44(d)(1) (founding philosophy and individuals as named content), (d)(2) (parties, interest groups, and media affecting public policy — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), (d)(3) (geography of districts, gerrymandering, Baker v. Carr), (d)(4)-(5) (government and the free enterprise economy, fiscal policy, international trade set by the branches), (d)(10) (political parties and the two-party system), (d)(11) (comparing the U.S. to other political systems as named content), (d)(16)-(18) (government policy and culture; science, technology, and government) — the courses do not genuinely teach these as the standard requires, so we do not claim them.
  • The landmark-cases overlap is thin, and we say so. Our Know Your Rights course teaches Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, and Carpenter as applicable rules. The US Government standard §113.44(d)(12)(E) enumerates Engel, Schenck, Texas v. Johnson, Miranda, Gideon, Mapp, and Roe — Mapp is the only direct overlap (Tinker appears separately in US History §113.41(d)(20)(A)). We claim the case-application skill as partial and do not pretend to cover this standard's specific case list.
  • The rest of World History, US History, World Geography, and Economics we checked. We read the full knowledge-and-skills of each social studies course and claim only the standards the catalog genuinely teaches. The surveys of Renaissance/Reformation, the World Wars, the Cold War as a whole, the American political eras, monetary and fiscal policy, market structures, and the many social studies skills sub-standards not listed above are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.
  • English I, III, and IV; and the ELA composition strand as a programme. We mapped English II (§110.37) as the representative course; English I (§110.36), III (§110.38), and IV (§110.39) carry parallel author's-craft, response, and inquiry standards we did not separately transcribe. And the composition strand's sustained writing expectations are met only by the Coffee project — one optional project in one episode — so we claim the argument and research standards as partial, never a full writing programme.
  • Health strands beyond health literacy and decision-making. Health I (§115.38) mental- and social-emotional health, healthy eating and physical activity as named content, injury and violence prevention, alcohol/tobacco/other drugs, and reproductive and sexual health were checked and are not genuinely taught by these courses. We claim only the two health-literacy standards and the decision-making standard, all partial.
  • Physical Education motor-demonstration outcomes. Every PE outcome that asks a student to DEMONSTRATE or PARTICIPATE in physical activity (competency in target, striking/fielding, fitness, rhythmic, and innovative activities; officiating; skill performance) is out of reach of an online course. We claim only the technology, personal-fitness-planning, consumer-evaluation, and sport-strategy KNOWLEDGE outcomes, and say so on each.

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