North Carolina's draft revised social studies curriculum increases the amount of time students will spend studying United States history.
North Carolina's social studies standards are being revised to provide students more time to study United States history by providing a full year of U.S. history in both elementary school and middle school. Currently, students do not have a full year of U.S. history in elementary school, and they do not study U.S. history in middle school. The process of revising the curriculum standards has just begun, and the current draft is expected to undergo several revisions in coming months.
Students would build on that study in high school Civics and Economics and in U.S. History. The high school Civics course includes learning about our nation's development and foundation. The high school U.S. History course would begin with 1877, the end of Reconstruction, in order to give students and teachers time to study our nation's history in more depth. The years prior to reconstruction would have been covered with students three times before - in fourth grade (as part of North Carolina history) in fifth grade and in seventh grade.
A wide range of elective U.S. History and other history courses also would be available to students who wish to continue history study in high school.
North Carolina's current curriculum, as well as the proposed draft, are available online.
• The current standards
• Draft 1.0 Revised social studies standards (A link for feedback is provided.)
The revised standards will continue to be refined before the N.C. State Board of Education considers them later this year.
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