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Alaska standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Alaskastandard 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 Alaska'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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Alaska · Social Studies

Alaska Content Standards — Government and Citizenship (A-G)

Alaska Content and Performance Standards for Alaska Students · Government and Citizenship · Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) / Alaska Board of Education & Early Development · retrieved 2026-07-19

Alaska's Government and Citizenship content standards are the anchor for the Alaska Civics flagship. Standard C — “A student should understand the character of government of the state” — names the Constitution of Alaska, the state's local governments, and the land/resource-ownership obligations that underpin the Permanent Fund, so — unlike the purely-federal states — the Alaska flagship's own-government lessons (boroughs and the Unorganized Borough, the strong governor, the Permanent Fund, merit-selection courts, the top-four/ranked-choice election system) have a genuine home. Standard B carries the general constitutional civics ladder, Standard E the participation claims, and Standard F Alaska's own oil-and-Permanent-Fund economics. Transcribed verbatim from the Alaska Content Standards (see the file header for the provenance note).

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  • G&C.F

    Partially covered
    A student should understand the economies of the United States and the state and their relationships to the global economy.

    Covered by

    • · Alaska Civics, Lesson 4 · The Permanent Fund Dividend, and why Alaska has no income or sales tax
    • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
    • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
    • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
    • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
    • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

    What we do and don't cover: How government and the economy interrelate through taxation, and the features of Alaska's own economy the standard names — natural resources, government ownership and management of resources, and the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation — are taught in the flagship's Permanent Fund lesson, and market-economics concepts (economic systems, supply and demand, the role of price) through the commodity course. Partial because the broader survey the standard requires (the Federal Reserve, GDP and inflation, the stock market, international trade) is not taught.

Alaska · English/Language Arts

Alaska English/Language Arts Standards — Grades 11-12

Alaska English/Language Arts and Mathematics Standards, June 2012 · Grades 11-12 · Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) / Alaska Board of Education & Early Development · retrieved 2026-07-19

Alaska is a non-adopter of the Common Core; the Alaska English/Language Arts and Mathematics Standards (June 2012) are Alaska's own. We map the grades 11-12 reading-in-history/social-studies, informational-reading, and research-writing standards this catalog genuinely reaches, transcribed verbatim from Alaska's by-grade document. (Alaska's history/social-studies reading strand happens to reproduce the Common Core RH wording, while its general informational-reading strand was edited — “Discern… aesthetic impact” for “Determine… beauty” — so we cite Alaska's own wording throughout rather than aliasing the shared Common Core file.) We claim no mathematics standards.

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  • Literacy in History/Social Studies 11-12.6

    Covered
    Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
    • · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
    • · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
    • · Ep 18 · Whose Voice

    Note: The strongest single alignment on this page. Ep 4 puts a planter's euphemism and passive voice directly against two first-person accounts by formerly enslaved writers, and teaches the student to assess each author's claims and evidence.

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 Alaska (2012) mathematics standard.
  • Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Alaska's 2019 K-12 Science Standards reproduce the NGSS HS-ESS3-1 performance expectation verbatim, 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.
  • Alaska Native communities, ANCSA, and tribal governments (Government and Citizenship, Standard C). Alaska's Standard C requires students to understand the historical and current roles of Alaska Native communities, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and its impact on the state, and the roles of and relationships among the federal, tribal, and state governments (its items 4, 5, and 8). Alaska Civics teaches Alaska's state and local structure — boroughs, the Unorganized Borough, the strong governor, the Permanent Fund, the courts, and the election system — but does not teach Alaska Native governance or ANCSA, so Standard C is claimed as partial. The gap is in the course, not the standard.
  • Alaska's own state structure is taught more fully than Standard C captures. Alaska Civics teaches the Constitution of 1959, boroughs instead of counties and the vast Unorganized Borough where the state provides county-type services, the strong governor with only two elected statewide officials, the 40/20 Legislature with no term limits, the line-item veto with a two-thirds/three-quarters override, the merit-selection judiciary, the citizen initiative/referendum/recall, the 2020 top-four/ranked-choice election system, and the Permanent Fund with no state income or sales tax — all from Alaska's own sources. Standard C hosts most of it, but this lettered content standard is a single broad statement, not an Alaska-government checklist, so the top-four/ranked-choice system, the Permanent Fund Dividend, and the boroughs have no code of their own.
  • The international-affairs and economic-decision-making standards we checked and rejected. Government and Citizenship Standard D (the role of the United States in international affairs — foreign policy, U.S. influence on other nations, international organizations) and Standard G (the impact of economic choices and effective participation in local, state, national, and global economies — the economic-decision-making pedagogy of scarcity, costs and benefits, and informed choices) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
  • The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Alaska's closest frameworks for these (its digital-literacy/technology and world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Alaska claims this pass.

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