This is another name for the old-fashioned study of United States History and Citizenship, Human geography, traditions in society, diverse perspectives, in other words learning how the rest of the world thinks and governs itself. This area addresses some fundamental issues such as individual and community health, physical education and fitness, as well as career exploration and developing some occupational experience in order to begin making decisions about self direction and adult life in the community. This standard requires that a student demonstrate a working knowledge of economic systems as related to technical systems and personal and family resource systems. Students must know and do more than just balance a checkbook. In today s world, students must have a sophisticated understanding of the both personal and governmental economics.
Students can choose to demonstrate a proficiency in another language.
This is enough to keep our high school students busy for three years. The number of standards, though daunting, is not what created the controversy. The real question, and one that still remains to be answered, is. There are some things we know through extensive research on how people learn and how learning is retained. Memorization of facts for paper pencil tests does not do it for long term learning.