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Tennessee standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Tennesseestandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.

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  • We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by ElementaryMBA against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Tennessee's education authority or by anyone else.
  • Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
  • Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
  • We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.
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Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies — Economics

Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies (adopted 2019) · Tennessee Department of Education / Tennessee State Board of Education · retrieved 2026-07-18

Tennessee's Economics course is filed in the social studies department. The BVC commodity series supplies its price-behavior, labor-institution, and trade standards through real commodity markets. Codes are transcribed verbatim.

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  • E.47

    Covered
    Describe causes and consequences of trade barriers (e.g., quotas, tariffs, and subsidies) on consumers and producers.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar

    Note: The U.S. sugar program is worked in detail as exactly this: import quotas, tariffs, and price supports, and the consumer cost they impose — causes and consequences of trade barriers on consumers and producers.

  • E.11

    Partially covered
    Use concepts of price elasticity of demand and supply to explain and predict changes in quantity as prices fluctuate.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
    • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

    What we do and don't cover: Price elasticity of demand is taught explicitly — inelastic coffee demand absorbing a sharp price spike — but as one concept in context, not a full elasticity unit covering the supply side with schedules and graphs.

  • E.45

    Partially covered
    Explain the benefits of trade among individuals, regions, and countries.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
    • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
    • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
    • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
    • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
    • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
    • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
    • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
    • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
    • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
    • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only

    What we do and don't cover: The geography of trade in real products — where commodities grow and who captures their value along the chain — is the series' spine. The formal gains-from-trade framework (comparative advantage by name) is not taught.

  • E.50

    Partially covered
    Evaluate the arguments for and against free trade.

    Covered by

    • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
    • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
    • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
    • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
    • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
    • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
    • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
    • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar

    What we do and don't cover: Who wins and who loses from global trade is worked at length — value captured downstream, the commodity trap, and a protected market's costs. But it is taught as distribution and power along real commodity chains rather than as the formal for-and-against free-trade debate.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

  • The flagship's most distinctive Tennessee facts have no Tennessee code to cite. Tennessee Civics teaches, from Tennessee's own sources, the Attorney General appointed by the state Supreme Court (unique in the nation), the Senate Speaker who carries the title 'Lieutenant Governor,' the Secretary of State/Treasurer/Comptroller elected by the Legislature, the unusually weak simple-majority veto override, the 'Tennessee Plan' appointment-then-retention judiciary, the ABSENCE of any citizen initiative, and Tennessee's photo-ID and excuse-required-absentee voting rules. The 2019 standards' Tennessee State and Local Government strand (GC.28–GC.30) reaches Tennessee's branches and its county/city/metro local government, and that is where those lessons are mapped — but the standards do not separately name the Attorney-General arrangement, the weak veto, the no-initiative rule, or the voting specifics, so those flagship details carry no dedicated code. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
  • English language arts, mathematics, and science — Tennessee's own, and not fetched. Tennessee withdrew from the Common Core and writes its own Tennessee Academic Standards for ELA and Mathematics, and its own science standards (not the NGSS). Each lives in a separate framework document we did not retrieve this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Tennessee gets no ELA, math, or science claim — even though the catalog's source-evaluation and research work would likely map to Tennessee's ELA literacy standards once fetched.
  • The federal-heavy government standards we checked and did not claim. The United States Government and Civics course contains many standards beyond the ones above — GC.01 (European/classical roots), GC.02 (the Declaration's grievances), GC.09 (democracy vs. republic as defined terms), GC.11 (the census, redistricting, Baker v. Carr), GC.12/GC.16/GC.17 (leadership positions and executive departments as named lists), GC.14 (identify your current members of Congress), GC.24 (the Second Amendment), GC.26/GC.27 (the 14th Amendment case menu; Title IX and the ADA), and GC.33 (media's influence on public opinion — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis). The courses do not genuinely teach these as written, so we do not claim them.
  • The rest of Economics, World History, and US History we checked. Economics standards on market structures, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy, and macroeconomic measurement (E.16–E.44), and the personal-finance content, are not genuinely taught. World History beyond the two imperialism standards (the World Wars, the Cold War, the Berlin Conference case detail) and US History beyond labor, the Great Migration, Prohibition, and the Harlem Renaissance (American imperialism and the Spanish-American War, the New Deal, the World Wars, the civil-rights movement's full arc) are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.

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