Mississippi standards alignment

• USG.6

  Partially covered

  Describe the role and function of linkage institutions such as the media, interest groups, political parties, and political action committees, on the citizens and federal government.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Tea — The Way of Tea
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
  • · Ep 2 · Reading a Tea Ad
  • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (reading a text for what it leaves out)
  • · Ep 11 · Tiki and the Tropical Paradise
  • · Ep 15 · The Language of Doubt
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 8 · Misleading statistics and charts
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 4 · Fake urgency, fake scarcity, and fake discounts

  What we do and don't cover: Claimed only through the media-evaluation objectives: USG.6 objective 7 ("Evaluate the responsibility of the citizens to thoughtfully evaluate evidence presented by media and interest groups") and objective 8 (the role of journalism, internet vs. traditional media) are near-1:1 with the catalog's media-literacy method. The rest of USG.6 (parties, PACs, campaign finance, interest-group agendas) is not taught, so this is partial.

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:

• Mathematics — Common-Core-derived MS CCRS: nothing claimed. Mississippi adopted the Common Core for mathematics as the MS College- and Career-Readiness Standards, but this catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Mississippi mathematics standard.
• Science — Mississippi's own 2018 standards (NOT NGSS): nothing claimed. Mississippi did NOT adopt the Next Generation Science Standards; its science standards are Mississippi's own (the 2018 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science). So the shared NGSS framework (which NGSS states adopt) does not apply here and is not aliased. This catalog has no laboratory work, investigation, or scientific modeling, and its climate/resource content would at most map to Mississippi's own Earth/Environmental science standards — deferred this pass, not claimed unverified.
• English/Language Arts RI.11-12.6 — in Mississippi's separate ELA document: deferred. The catalog's rhetoric/persuasion strength (analyzing how style and content make a text persuasive) maps to RI.11-12.6 (Reading Informational Text). That code lives in Mississippi's separate ELA-teacher standards document rather than the 2025 MS CCRS for Literacy and Writing we transcribed here, so we did not verify its verbatim Mississippi wording this pass. Verbatim-or-nothing: it is deferred, not aliased.
• Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor, struck-down initiative, and 2020 changes have no discrete benchmark. The flagship teaches Mississippi's unusually powerful Lieutenant Governor, its ballot-initiative process struck down in 2021 (the five-congressional-district signature formula that became impossible after Mississippi dropped to four U.S. House seats), the 2020 removal of the Jim Crow-era statewide-election rule, and the 2020 adoption of a new state flag as headline features. Mississippi's MS.10 standard names none of them individually (it says only "the structure and function of local and state government in Mississippi"), so they are claimed through MS.10 rather than as standards of their own.
• The abstract-concept and linkage-institution benchmarks we checked and rejected. USG.1 (the basic concepts of democracy — the worth and dignity of the individual, equality under law, majority rule vs. minority rights, compromise) is too abstract to claim as a dedicated unit, and the party / PAC / campaign-finance / interest-group core of USG.6 is not taught (USG.6 is claimed only partially, through its two media-evaluation objectives). The courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• Mississippi's US History, World History, Economics, Geography, and Mississippi Studies history strands — deferred, not denied. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and Cold-War history and its commodity economics WOULD map to Mississippi's US History, World History, Economics, and Geography courses and to the history strands of the Mississippi Studies course (MS.1-9, MS.11, MS.12), as they do in other states. Those strands were not transcribed this pass; they are deferred (verbatim-or-nothing), not claimed unverified. This pass mapped the US Government course, the Mississippi Studies government standard (MS.10), and the grades 11-12 literacy standards.