K-12 Educational Standards
Standards for Grade(s): 11
United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
11.11 Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.
Standards for Grade(s): 12
Principles of American Democracy
12.3 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.
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California State Board of Education Content Standards
First Aired: 12/12/2000
27 minutes
Jane Alexander, former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, human rights and peace activist, actor and author, examines what remains to be done to secure the effective observance of human rights in the United States and around the world. (#5223)







