Economics
Curriculum
How to Teach Tariffs: 8 Resources and Lessons
Wondering how to broach tariffs with your students? Check out these resources and lesson plans we've gathered.
Mathematics
Video
Teaching Economics (Taylor's Version)
Taylor Swift's massive impact on the economy inspired a high school teacher to create lessons in "Swiftonomics."
College & Workforce Readiness
A Lesson in Eggonomics: The Story of Soaring Prices and Industrious High Schoolers
California agriculture students are undercutting grocery store egg prices—and learning big lessons in the process.
Federal
Opinion
It’s Their Future
“Beyond balancing checkbooks and understanding the miracle of compound interest, young people need to learn—and teachers need the curriculum resources to teach—about public finances,” writes Andrew L. Yarrow.
Education
Seizing the Moment to Raise Economic Literacy
We've heard of social studies teachers seizing the moment and using the buzz around the Presidential election as a way to motivate students to learn more about the workings of our government.
Federal
Flagging Economy Propels Financial Education
Concerns about the foundering economy are helping to highlight the need to improve students’ understanding of money matters.
Curriculum
Opinion
Why Markets Are Important (And What They Could Do for Public Education)
Denis P. Doyle comments on the heavy hand of tradition and the lack of entrepreneurial vitality in the education realm.
Assessment
Seniors Handle Broad Economic Principles
But many struggled with the basics, the first NAEP in the subject shows.
Assessment
First Economics NAEP Termed ‘Not Discouraging’
Forty-two percent of U.S. 12th graders scored at or above the “proficient” level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in economics, the first time that subject has been tested under the heavily scrutinized federal program.
Federal
Report Finds Lack of Economics Instruction
Fewer than half the states require students to take even a basic course in economics.
Curriculum
Getting Down to Business
At Villages High School in Florida, getting ready for class is largely about getting ready for work.
Curriculum
Federal File
Addressing Income Inequality
Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, weighs in on the connection between education and income inequality.
School & District Management
Study Questions Role Math, Science Scores Play In Nations’ GDPs
A study of more than three dozen countries, including the United States, challenges the popular belief that superior student achievement on international mathematics and science tests breeds national economic success.
Curriculum
Financial-Literacy Challenges Seen
Financial education in the nation’s schools seems to have taken one step ahead and a half-step back.
