This link provides you with the minimum requirements for high school completion in the state of California. The courses include 3 years English and Social Studies, 2 years of Math, Science, and Phys. Ed., and 1 year Foreign Language OR Arts (Visual or Performing). What I found interesting to take away from this is that is that there is so much room in the schedule to throw in additional courses like electives, and that there are so many more free periods. Like for example, they only take two years of math and science, so for two years they have free time or elective. This is a good thing depending on how it's done, because if it's taught well that means that the students can learn what the system tells them too and still have time to learn what they are interested in, but if done poorly it could rob the students of a full education.
This link provides information on the North Carolina Language Arts program in Grades 9-12. Essentially the North Carolina school system acts much as the New York system in Language Arts, however it appears to have a greater emphasis on grammar, at least in comparison with School of the Future. Where School of the Future has little to no teachings in this area North Carolina (supposedly) has teachings on how to use the many forms of language grammatically for effect.
This link discusses course changes that North Carolina wishes to make soon, specifically in the subject of History. The school system wishes to eliminate World History form the curriculum so that it may replace it with Global Studies. The main concerns with these changes is if the students taking AP courses will have to take twice as many courses if the state changes the standards, which I find odd because if that were the case they could simple adjust the AP curriculum along with the normal in order for everything to line up properly.
Will be finished as soon as possible, sorry for the delay, my computer broke and the home desktop does not work for editing existing posts or linking.
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