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Arkansas standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Arkansasstandard 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

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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 Arkansas'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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Filtering by course: BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

Showing 10 standards in Social Studies covered by BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution. Clear filters

Arkansas · Social Studies

Civics — Arkansas Social Studies Academic Standards

Revised 2022 · Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) · retrieved 2026-07-16

Arkansas's required half-credit Civics course (grades 9-12), from the December 2022 standards revision (full implementation 2024-25). Codes are Knowledge and Skill Performance Expectations (C.2.CIV.1 style).

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  • C.4.CIV.4

    Covered
    Identify intended and unintended consequences of public policies.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
    • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
    • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)
    • · 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

    Note: Three public policies worked at depth, each with both columns: the U.S. sugar program (intended: stable domestic prices; unintended: ~$3.5bn/yr consumer cost), Prohibition (its results against its rhetoric), and the War on Drugs (the balloon effect is an unintended-consequences lesson by name).

Arkansas · Social Studies

Economics with Personal Finance — Arkansas Social Studies Academic Standards

Revised 2022 · Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) · retrieved 2026-07-16

Arkansas's high-school economics course, which bundles personal finance. We claim three economics standards and no personal-finance standard at all — the catalog does not teach personal finance.

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  • E.5.ECON.3

    Partially covered
    Research the impact of international and national economic and political policies on global trade using a variety of sources from multiple perspectives (e.g., trade policies, tariffs, quotas, immigration laws, fiscal policy, regulations).

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
    • · 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

    What we do and don't cover: Partial, with the distinction stated: the CONTENT is taught in depth (the sugar program's tariffs and quotas; a trade agreement's labor rules, including the cases the United States lost). But the standard's verb is RESEARCH, and student-run research is currently required only in the Coffee episode's project.

  • E.3.ECON.5

    Partially covered
    Evaluate intended and unintended consequences of government policies created to improve market outcomes (e.g., regulatory, participatory, supervisory, price floor, price ceiling, minimum wage).

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: one policy family — the U.S. sugar program's price supports and import quotas — is evaluated properly, intended and unintended columns both. Price ceilings and the minimum wage, which the standard lists, are not taught.

Arkansas · Social Studies

World Geography — Arkansas Social Studies Academic Standards

Revised 2022 · Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) · retrieved 2026-07-16

Arkansas's high-school geography course. This is the course the Commodity Map fits most completely in Arkansas.

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Arkansas · Social Studies

World History Since 1450 — Arkansas Social Studies Academic Standards

Revised 2022 · Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) · retrieved 2026-07-16

Arkansas's high-school world history course, from the December 2022 revision.

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  • H.6.WH.13

    Covered
    Analyze causes and consequences of voluntary and forced mass migration, including the efforts to reform such practices. This may include cultural practices, resource availability, the plantation system, urbanization, industrialization, conflict migration, and transatlantic abolitionism.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
    • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
    • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
    • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (Equiano, 1789; Mary Prince, 1831)

    Note: The standard's core and three of its named threads, all taught: forced mass migration (the transatlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage), the plantation system, and the reform efforts — transatlantic abolitionism through the sugar boycott's own pamphlets.

  • H.6.WH.14

    Partially covered
    Compare the social and economic impact of different labor systems in the Age of Revolutions.

    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
    • · 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: the plantation labor system and its social and economic impact are taught thoroughly for the era; the comparison against the era's other labor systems (free wage labor, serfdom) is not made systematically.

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 Arkansas mathematics standard.
  • The Arkansas Civics flagship's structure lessons have no Arkansas standard to cite. Arkansas Civics: How Your State Government Works teaches the 1874 constitution, the seven separately elected executives, the nonpartisan ELECTED Supreme Court (Amendment 80), and the quorum-court county system — from Arkansas's own official sources. But Arkansas's 2022 Civics and U.S. Government standards are overwhelmingly FEDERAL: we searched both documents and found no structure-of-Arkansas-government standard for those lessons to meet. The course backs the state halves of C.4.CIV.1 (lawmaking, initiatives) and C.3.CIV.13 (elections); the rest of its Arkansas content has no code to cite. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
  • Health — the 2019 standards print no citable codes, and the content does not match. Arkansas's 2019 Health & Safety standards are competency statements ('I can…') organized by domain and level, with no printed codes — and the Grades 9-12 objectives are content-domain statements (nutrition, alcohol/tobacco/drugs, disease prevention, mental health) that our health courses do not teach. Unlike Indiana and Arizona, whose health frameworks carry skill standards for evaluating health information and goal-setting, Arkansas gives our health claims no honest home. We cite none; the goal-setting and product-claims work maps through the PE course frameworks instead, where Arkansas DID write codes.
  • Personal finance — nothing. Arkansas bundles personal finance into its Economics course (Act 480/466 requirements). The catalog does not teach personal finance, so we claim no PF standard.
  • Arkansas Economics has no home for the reciprocity-economy content. The curriculum contrasts traditional (reciprocity) and market economies directly and at length, but E.3.ECON.1's allocation-method list (price, auction, lottery, first come, contest, fiat) has no gift/reciprocity entry, and no other 2022 Economics standard covers economic systems. That content maps in Arkansas through World Geography's G.3.WG.5 (attitudes toward resources) instead. E.3.ECON.6/7 (degrees of market competition) are rejected for the same reason as Indiana's market-structure standards: named in our lessons, never taught as a unit. E.5.ECON.1 (comparative advantage) is not taught by name.
  • Most of the Civics and U.S. Government standards we checked. C.2.CIV.1 and H.5.USH.1 (flag etiquette), C.2.CIV.3 (the seven-ideology comparison), C.2.CIV.4 (the Federalist Papers as rationale), C.3.CIV.2/3/5 (non-citizen roles, citizenship demographics, the Census), C.3.CIV.11 (Arkansas student-law topics), C.3.CIV.12/14/15/16 (parties, PACs, media influence, gerrymandering — our media-literacy course is consumer protection, not political media analysis), C.4.CIV.5/6 (intergovernmental policy conflict; criminal vs. civil law), C.3.USG.1-6 (Enlightenment thinkers and the Declaration as persuasive argument), C.2.USG.6/7/10/12/13 (the Cabinet, the bureaucracy, Full Faith and Credit, fiscal policy), and C.4.USG.3-6 (judicial philosophies and current-issues application) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
  • U.S. History Since 1929 starts too late for half our labor history. The Gilded Age labor movement (the Knights, Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman), the Triangle fire, and the Great Migration's first decades all predate 1929, so Arkansas's U.S. History course cannot reach them — the window is the course's, not ours. Taft-Hartley (1947) and PATCO (1981) fall inside the window, but H.5.USH.20's policy list does not name labor policy and H.5.USH.22's Reagan-era list does not name PATCO, so we do not claim either. The Migration and Jim Crow map through African-American History, where Arkansas's standards name them.
  • World History standards we checked and rejected. H.6.WH.10 (industrialization's development and expansion), H.6.WH.21-24 (World War I and II, the Holocaust), H.6.WH.30-32 (Cold War interdependence, late-20th-century catastrophes and costs of war), and H.6.WH.34 (human-made and natural disasters) — case-study adjacency is not coverage, so we claim none of them.
  • PE performance and participation standards — all of them. Every PFL and RS standard that asks a student to DEMONSTRATE motor skill, participate, perform dance, or exhibit behavior during activity (all of Content Standard 1, the participation halves of Standard 3, Standards 4 and 5's in-activity conduct) is out of reach of an online course, however good its knowledge content. We claim knowledge- and planning-side standards only, and we say so on each entry.
  • The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Arkansas's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Arkansas claims this pass.

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