{"id":14303,"date":"2014-09-22T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14303"},"modified":"2014-09-22T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T16:20:28","slug":"california-using-c3-social-studies-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14303","title":{"rendered":"California is using the C3 Social Studies Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, California\u00a0Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 897 into law. \u00a0The bill requires\u00a0the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC), &#8220;upon the next\u00a0revision of the history-social science framework\u00a0and the state content standards,\u00a0to\u00a0consider whether and how to incorporate\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialstudies.org\/c3\">College, Career, and Civic\u00a0Life (C3) Framework<\/a> for Social Studies State Standards.&#8221; California&#8217;s legislation follows similar recent developments in <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14244\">Illinois<\/a> and other states.<\/p>\n<p>As one author of the &#8220;C3,&#8221; I am biased in its favor. I\u00a0believe that its relatively short and broad framework is an antidote to the\u00a0miscellaneous and incoherent standards documents that most states have created. Social studies standards tend to accumulate, because state departments of education and legislatures have incentives to add any topic\u00a0that someone considers important. If, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/11\/my-view-how-schools-should-handle-911-in-class\/\">they fail to\u00a0list 9\/11 in their standards<\/a>, they can be accused of not caring about 9\/11. As a result,\u00a0standards become unrealistically\u00a0long and miscellaneous. There are bills currently pending in California to require the study of Hinduism and the importance of Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 election. I have no particular objection to\u00a0either topic but do object to this method of\u00a0writing standards, one additional legal mandate at a time. Using the\u00a0&#8220;C3&#8221; would permit a\u00a0reset.<\/p>\n<p>More important to me, personally, is the fourth (of four) &#8220;dimensions&#8221; in the C3 framework:\u00a0&#8220;Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action.&#8221; The ideal is for students to learn to be good citizens by actually working as citizens, even if that is only within their classrooms or online\u00a0rather than in their communities.\u00a0If communication and action become pillars of social studies education in major states, we may see significant changes in\u00a0how students spend school\u00a0time, what they learn, how they are assessed, how future teachers are prepared, and what materials and tools (such as software) are developed for the social studies market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, California\u00a0Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 897 into law. \u00a0The bill requires\u00a0the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC), &#8220;upon the next\u00a0revision of the history-social science framework\u00a0and the state content standards,\u00a0to\u00a0consider whether and how to incorporate\u00a0the College, Career, and Civic\u00a0Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards.&#8221; California&#8217;s legislation follows similar recent developments in Illinois and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14306,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions\/14306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}