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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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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).

Read the source document →

  • WH2.15

    Covered
    Compare different forms of European colonization and enslavement, such as in plantation-based societies and economies across the Americas and the Caribbean, and resistance to such enslavement.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution

    Note: Both halves of the standard are covered: the plantation economy itself, and resistance to it (Maroon communities, the Haitian Revolution, revolt and abolition).

  • WH2.40

    Covered
    Analyze the social, political and economic factors that contributed to the Haitian Revolution, and evaluate the impact of the Haitian revolution on Haiti and global events.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom
    • · Ep 11 · The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James)

    Note: Including the standard's second half, which most curricula skip: the 1825 French indemnity, and the line from it to Haiti's poverty today.

  • WH2.37

    Partially covered
    Evaluate the impact of the silver trade, spice trade, cotton trade and sugar industry on different societies and individuals during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Sugar Islands
    • · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World
    • · Ep 11 · Waste-Product Economics

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: of the four trades the standard names, this curriculum covers the SUGAR INDUSTRY — thoroughly. It does not teach the silver, spice or cotton trades.

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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