Amendment ASA1-AB172

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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO 2009 ASSEMBLY BILL 172

April 28, 2009 - Offered by Representatives Vukmir and Kramer.

AB172-ASA1,1,3 An Act to renumber and amend 118.01 (2) (c) 6.; and to create 115.28 (55) and 118.01 (2) (c) 6. a. to f. of the statutes; relating to: instruction in social studies in public schools.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB172-ASA1, s. 1 Section 1. 115.28 (55) of the statutes is created to read:

AB172-ASA1,1,7 115.28 (55) Social studies standards. Incorporate knowledge of the history of organized labor and the collective bargaining process into the model academic standards for social studies.

AB172-ASA1, s. 2 Section 2. 118.01 (2) (c) 6. of the statutes is renumbered 118.01 (2) (c) 6. (intro.) and amended to read:

AB172-ASA1,1,11 118.01 (2) (c) 6. (intro.) Knowledge of state, national , and world history., including all of the following:

AB172-ASA1, s. 3 Section 3. 118.01 (2) (c) 6. a. to f. of the statutes are created to read:

AB172-ASA1,2,6 118.01 (2) (c) 6. a. Civilization, cultural diffusion, and innovation, including the evolution of human skills and the means of exerting power over nature and people; the rise, interaction, and decline of successive centers of such skills and power; the cultural flowering of major civilizations in the arts, literature, and thought; the role of social, religious, and political patronage of the arts and learning; and the importance of the city in different eras and places.

AB172-ASA1,2,12 b. Human interaction with the environment, including the relationships among geography, technology, and culture, and their effects on economic, social, and political developments; the choices made possible by climate, resources, and location, and the effect of culture and human values on such choices; the gains and losses of technological change; the central role of agriculture; and the effect of disease, and disease-fighting, on plants, animals, and human beings.

AB172-ASA1,2,19 c. Values, beliefs, political ideas, and institutions, including the origins and spread of influential religions and ideologies; the evolution of political and social institutions, at various stages of industrial and commercial development; the interplay among ideas, material conditions, moral values, and leadership, especially in the evolution of democratic societies; and the tensions between the aspirations for freedom and security, for liberty and equality, for distinction and commonality, in human affairs.

AB172-ASA1,2,24 d. Conflict and cooperation, including the many and various causes of war, and of approaches to peacemaking and war prevention; relations between domestic affairs and ways of dealing with the outside world; contrasts between international conflict and cooperation, between isolation and interdependence; and the consequences of war and peace for societies and their cultures.

AB172-ASA1,3,5 e. Comparative history of major developments, including the characteristics of revolution, reaction, and reform periods across time and place; imperialism, ancient and modern; comparative instances of slavery and emancipation, feudalism and centralization, human successes and failures, and wisdom and folly; comparative elites and aristocracies; and the role of family, wealth, and merit.

AB172-ASA1,3,11 f. Patterns of social and political interaction, including the changing patterns of class, ethnic, racial, and gender structures and relations; immigration, migration, and social mobility; the effects of schooling; the new prominence of women, minorities, and the common people in the study of history, and their relation to political power and influential elites; the characteristics of multicultural societies; and forces for unity and disunity.

AB172-ASA1,3,12 (End)