Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Asia in California: Educational Standards
January 1, 2007
Introduction
Unlike many countries, the United States does not have a government mandated curriculum, nor mandatory performance or content standards or assessment. As late as 1996, only fourteen of the fifty states had state performance or content standards. Now only Iowa lacks such standards. In 1995, the California state legislature ordered the drafting of state performance and content standards. The state board of education has adopted these discipline by discipline. California's standards are considered among the most demanding in the country. The Los Angeles Times quoted Diane Ravitch, a leading scholar on education trends, as saying, "Right now, they're the best in the country. First of all, they are clear. They tell teachers what they should be teaching, and students what they're expected to learn" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 18, 1998).
Unfortunately, barely half of California's public school teachers say they are "very familiar with the content of the standards." And fewer still are prepared to deliver instruction geared to helping their students meet these standards (California Educator, Nov. 1999).
Through our teacher training efforts (the summer institute and our school site programs), the USC U.S.-China Institute's K-12 outreach program equips teachers to help their students meet many of the skill and content standards.
These standards web pages provide information about:
History Standards Relating to Asia
History Standards Relating to China
History Standards Relating to Japan
Language Arts Standards that can include Asian Materials
World History Standards (National Center for History in the Schools)
World History Standards Relating to Japan
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Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.