Click here to see the Primary (K-6) History Standards from the National Center for History in the Schools. I will, from time to time, continue to add electronic excerpts from the World and U.S. history standards. If you wish, you may write the National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA, Department of History, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473 for ordering information.
U.S. History Standards: These are available at the NCHS site.
World History Standards
Click here to see a complete copy of the World History
Standards in ASCII format. This copy does not include the examples.
I have know obtained the electronic version of the world history standards. Click here to see the Preface and Chapter One in a HTML format. I will be formatting the rest of the standards shortly.
Here is chapter two of the World History Standards. This chapter discusses the standards in "historical thinking". The format is HTML.
Here is the start of Chpater 3. The introduction to the chapter plus the first era is covered. I'll be adding more Eras as time permits. The format is HTML.
Here is Era 2 of Chapter 3. Format is HTML.
Here is Era 3 of Chapter 3. Format is HTML.
Here is Era 4 of Chapter 3. Format is HTML.
You may be interested in reading some of the debate surrounding the World History Standards. Haines Brown has put together a thoughtful page in which he has collected various articles, messages, etc. relating to this debate. You may go there by clicking here.
Also, the May 1995 issue of "The History Teacher" (Vol. 28, #3) is devoted in entirety to the History Standards. Entitled "Exploring the National Standards for United States History and World History". it contains many thoughtful reviews of the Standards plus large pieces of the standards themselves.
Paul Gagnon has a recent article in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly discussing standards in general and the World History Standards in particular. See a recent posting by Ross Dunn to the World History Listserv for a discussion starting point.