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Washington, D.C. standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Washington, D.C.standard 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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standards mapped
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fully covered
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partially covered
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frameworks

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 Washington, D.C.'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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Washington, D.C. · Social Studies

Washington, DC K-12 Social Studies Standards

June 2023 · Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) · retrieved 2026-07-13

Common Core never covered social studies, so DC wrote its own. These are the high-school course codes: WH1 (World History I), WH2 (World History II), US2 (US History II).

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  • WH2.53

    Covered
    Analyze the Opium Wars' impact on China's political, economic and social systems, and evaluate the global consequences of the Opium Wars.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
    • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter

  • US2.79

    Partially covered
    Evaluate the effort of American foreign policy to meet humanitarian goals, further economic interests, and increase domestic security, including the War on Drugs and the invasion of Afghanistan during the Global War on Terror.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 18 · Bolivia's Bet (Bolivia's legal coca model against U.S.-funded eradication)
    • · Ep 18 · The Balloon Effect
    • · Ep 17 · Where the Poppy Grows (Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent)
    • · Ep 16 · The Justice Gap

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the War on Drugs half is covered in depth, including its foreign-policy arm. The invasion of Afghanistan and the Global War on Terror are not taught — the curriculum reaches Afghanistan through opium geography, not through the war.

Washington, D.C. · English/Language Arts

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy

Grades 11-12 · Common Core State Standards Initiative · retrieved 2026-07-13

OSSE states that “In July 2010, the District of Columbia adopted the Common Core State Standards” for reading and mathematics. The literacy-in-history/social-studies (RH) and writing-in-history (WHST) strands are the ones this curriculum touches. We claim no mathematics standards.

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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:

  • Mathematics — nothing. This curriculum does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Common Core mathematics standard.
  • Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. We claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, and we explain exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
  • Prohibition and mass incarceration. The curriculum teaches both. D.C.'s 2023 social studies standards contain no standard on either (we searched the full document), so there is nothing for us to cite. The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
  • D.C.'s economics and geography strands. In the 2023 document these are un-numbered “statements of practice”, not coded standards. There is no code to cite, so we cite none — even though the economics content lines up well.
  • The wider catalog — not yet mapped for D.C. The civics, U.S. history, health, and PE mapping done for Indiana has not been repeated against D.C.'s frameworks yet. D.C. currently carries the Commodity Map alignment only; the catalog-wide pass is queued.

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