Core Standards

Framework

The California History/Social Science Framework is available for purchase at the CDE Publication website. The standards are now embedded in the document and some of the out-of-date information has been updated.

Standards

Standards-driven curriculum and assessment have been the major education reform during the last 5 years both in California and the nation. Nationally, establishing standards in history/social science proved to be very controversial as interest groups with widely varying world views collided over what essential ideas must be taught and assessed in public schools. This conflict was less apparent in California. The State of California Academic Standards Commission and the State School Board by-and-large followed the topics and chronology of the award-winning and broadly accepted California History/Social Science Curriculum Framework adopted in 1987 and renewed with slight revision in 1997. The final History/Social Science Content Standards document was approved in October 1998 and is available at:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/histsocsci-stnd.pdf