Level 1 covers Oklahoma’s grades 9-10 computer science standards, which draw from CSTA’s Level 3A national band. This is the cleanest alignment we’ve found in this series: all 28 Level 1 standards trace directly back to a CSTA 3A standard — no Oklahoma-only additions, no gaps. Here’s the full standard-by-standard breakdown, with a downloadable spreadsheet….
Grade 8 closes out Oklahoma’s 6-8 CS band before students move into Level 1 (grades 9-10). Of the 22 Grade 8 standards, 19 have a direct CSTA 6-8 match, 2 are loose matches, and just 1 has no CSTA equivalent at all — the tightest alignment to the national framework of any middle-school grade we’ve…
Grade 7 sits in the middle of Oklahoma’s 6-8 CS band, which draws from CSTA’s Level 2 (grades 6-8) national standards. Of the three middle-school grades, Grade 7 turns out to be the closest match to CSTA of any we’ve compared so far — most standards are near-verbatim, with only two genuine Oklahoma-specific additions. Here’s…
Grade 6 sits at the start of Oklahoma’s 6-8 CS band, which pulls from CSTA’s “Level 2” grade 6-8 standards rather than the elementary 1B band used in Grades 3-5. That shift shows up in the comparison: Oklahoma’s 21 Grade 6 standards track CSTA closely for programming and hardware, but start pulling away from CSTA…
Oklahoma doesn’t write its computer science standards from scratch — the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Computer Science (OAS-CS, February 2023) are built directly on top of the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards, the national framework maintained by the Computer Science Teachers Association. But “built on top of” doesn’t mean “copied word for word.” This post…
The literary landscape of the early 20th century produced numerous visionary works, but few have sparked as much debate and analysis as H.G. Wells’ “The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution.” Published in 1928, this political treatise represents Wells’ mature philosophical statement on global governance, technological society, and humanity’s future. This comprehensive analysis…
