Financial Education
Curriculum
Economic, Financial Education Gains Ground in States, Report Shows
More states are requiring school districts to offer personal-finance courses to high school students and to put in place standards for economic literacy and education, concludes a nationwide survey released last week by the National Council on Economic Education.
Curriculum
New Oregon Law Targets Students’ Debts
Oregon parents who are not paying their children’s school fees might regret it come the end of the 2004-05 school year, when the schools withhold their children’s report cards or diplomas.
Curriculum
Schools Banking on Financial-Literacy Efforts
A national push to teach personal-finance skills is the result of a growing awareness that most students don’t know the basics about money management, leaving them vulnerable in an increasingly sophisticated world that offers a dizzying array of financial choices.
Curriculum
Hitting the Jackpot
American Indian students who share in the proceeds of the local casino are getting school lessons on how to hang on to their chips.
Curriculum
Schools Urged To Teach Value of Money
Americans have a thing or two to learn about managing their personal finances. Just ask Timothy J. Raftis, the vice president of the country's largest nonprofit credit-counseling agency.
Americans have a thing or two to learn about managing their personal finances. Just ask Timothy J. Raftis, the vice president of the country's largest nonprofit credit-counseling agency.
Education
Financial Educators Take Aim at Bank's Youth Credit Card
A national education group has decided to fight the plan by a Denver bank to issue what it says are the nation's first credit cards for children.