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Alabama standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Alabamastandard 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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  • 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 Alabama'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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Alabama · Social Studies

Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies — Economics (Grade 12)

2010 · Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) · retrieved 2026-07-19

Economics is a one-semester course required of every Grade 12 student; its content standards are numbered 1-12 in the 2010 Course of Study. We cite each as ECON.N (the printed number), text transcribed verbatim. This is not an economics course; we claim the standards the BVC commodity, trade, and labor curriculum genuinely reaches, each with an honest coverage note.

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  • ECON.6

    Partially covered
    Describe how specialization and voluntary exchange between buyers and sellers lead to mutually beneficial outcomes.

    Covered by

    • · 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: supply, demand, and price are taught through real commodity markets — inelastic coffee demand absorbing a price spike, and who is paid what along the value chain. It is not the general supply-and-demand, market-clearing-price unit the standard's circular-flow sub-points describe.

  • ECON.8

    Partially covered
    Explain the impact of the labor market on the United States' economy.

    Covered by

    • · 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
    • · 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 13 · Taft-Hartley, 1947: what the law took back
    • · The History of Unions, Lesson 14 · PATCO, 1981, and reading the decline honestly
    • · Mexico, Lesson 7 · Mexico rewrites its labor law, and the 68-year gap that explains why
    • · Mexico, Lesson 10 · The Rapid Response Mechanism: an international labor rule with teeth
    • · Mexico, Lesson 12 · The limits, honestly: the cases the United States lost
    • · 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: the standard's sub-point 'Tracing the history of labor unions and methods of contract negotiation' is taught in real depth (The History of Unions, from the Gilded Age through the Wagner Act, Taft-Hartley, and PATCO; the NAFTA-to-USMCA labor order). The general labor-market mechanics the standard leads with (how supply and demand set wages, unemployment and inflation) are not taught.

  • ECON.12

    Partially covered
    Explain why individuals, businesses, and governments trade goods and services in the global economy.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
    • · 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
    • · 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
    • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: why nations trade (the growing belts decide where commodities can grow, so trade follows), the advantages and disadvantages of global trade (the commodity trap and who captures value), and trade barriers (the sugar program's quotas, tariffs, and subsidies, and why countries impose them) are all worked. The comparative-advantage and exchange-rate mechanics the standard also names are not taught.

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 Alabama mathematics standard (the 2019 Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics, Alabama's own, not Common Core).
  • English Language Arts — deferred, not denied. Alabama writes its own ELA standards (the 2021 Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts, adopted after Alabama left Common Core). This catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, argument-writing, and source-evaluation teaching would map to Alabama ELA — but our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, and that document has not been retrieved and transcribed this pass, so we make no Alabama ELA claim yet.
  • Science — deferred, not denied. Alabama is NOT an NGSS state. Alabama's science standards are the 2015 Alabama Course of Study: Science, built from the National Research Council Framework with Alabama's own codes — NOT the Next Generation Science Standards. We did not assume otherwise. That document has not been fetched and transcribed this pass, so we make no Alabama science claim; when it is, the two Earth-science claims used elsewhere (resources, hazards, and climate shaping human activity) would be the candidates.
  • United States Government standards we checked and do NOT claim. USG.1 (historical and philosophical origins — the Magna Carta, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and comparing limited and unlimited governments), USG.8 (special-interest groups, PACs, and Buckley v. Valeo), USG.9 (the media's impact on the political and election process — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), and USG.10 (the role of political parties) are not genuinely taught by these courses, so we do not claim them.
  • Economics standards we checked and do NOT claim. ECON.1 and ECON.2 (scarcity, opportunity cost, and rational decision making as named concepts), ECON.5 (standard of living and productivity), ECON.7 (the organization and role of business, firm types, and market structures), ECON.9 (GDP, CPI, inflation, and unemployment measurement), ECON.10 (the Federal Reserve and monetary policy), and ECON.11 (fiscal policy, deficits, and the national debt) are financial- and macro-economics content this catalog does not teach.
  • Health and Physical Education — out of scope for Social Studies this pass. Alabama publishes its own Health Education and Physical Education courses of study. This catalog's dental-health, body-data, and sport-knowledge courses could map to them, but those documents were not fetched this pass; per fetch-or-don't-cite we make no Alabama health or PE claim yet.

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