Whoa! Does Channel One have something good going on?

On Channel One's Network website, it is now featuring a correlation litmus test

"To ensure that our offerings meet the highest educational standards, Channel One Network has partnered with EdGate Correlation Services to identify how the issues and topics explored on Channel One News align with your school's requisite state and national course curriculum and teaching mandates."

This tool is pretty neat. You can do either a standards or a content search.  In the standards search, you first go to the state mandate that you want to comply with, then click on the grade you're targeting and then click on the educational subject you're interested in.  With the content search, you can just click on the grade you want to look up and then content of the educational subject you need to see.  

Based on the statistical findings, it seems like Channel One may offer quite a bit to students that achieve both the purpose of educating them on various subjects and also with making it easy 
to justify Channel One's role in helping schools achieve state mandates. 

One search I ran on a standards search:

• Standards: New York Standards
  
• Grade: 9
  
• Subject: Health and PE
  

These results showed up that met the standard 1:
PERFORMANCE INDICATOR 1.1.2. Students demonstrate the necessary knowledge and skills to promote healthy development into adulthood.  

These 7 archived news stories from Channel One claim to help facilitate that goal:

Archived News Stories ( 7 correlated items )
2007/09/06: Healthier Meals when Eating with Family
2007/09/26: Eating healthy at fast food restaurants
2007/10/15: Food preferences may be genetic
2007/11/27: School lunch sales don't decline when healthy choices available
2008/01/31: School Stress
2008/02/05: Teens and stress
2008/04/21: Calorie counts will be required at New York fast food restaurants


Maybe there is something to this Channel One? Perhaps it may not be completely at odds with the unified educational intentions behind the schools of individual states.  Perhaps it could even be a unification across state boundaries.  

What are your thoughts?