Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Social Studies TEKS include grade-level content standards in history; geography; economics; government; culture; science, technology and society; social studies skills and civics. Grade-specific K-8 standards and course-specific standards for high school. (Tex. Admin. Code tit. 19, Part II, Chapter 113)

Social Studies Framework notes that an understanding of social studies disciplines prepares students to assume productive, participatory lives as citizens. “All school subjects contribute to the development of citizens, but social studies is the one school subject that has citizenship education as its overarching goal.”