Financial Education
Curriculum
Teacher Leaders Network
Money Matters: The Case for Teaching Financial Literacy
Teachers need to do more to weave financial literacy into instruction and help safeguard students' futures, writes Anthony S. Colucci.
Federal
News in Brief
Financial Literacy Added to PISA
A prominent international assessment of student achievement will include a new topic—financial literacy—when the testing regime is next administered, with results to be released in 2013.
Federal
Financial Literacy to Be Tested on International Exam
The new PISA exam will focus on such matters as planning and managing financies, dealing with credit cards, and consumer rights.
Curriculum
Opinion
Charting A Better Course for Business and Education
If corporate America's involvement in education is to yield dividends for students, businesspeople and educators must learn to treat each other's ideas and experiences with respect, Joseph Piro writes.
Curriculum
Friday Roundup Part II: Math, Arts Ed., Financial Literacy, and Book Bans
A quick roundup of developments in math, financial literacy, arts education, and book banning.
Social Studies
Colorado to Host Summit on Student Financial Literacy
Colorado is hosting a summit this week on improving students' personal financial literacy.
Curriculum
Scoring Points in Teaching Finance
Many educators are turning to digital games to teach students about personal finance and investing.
Curriculum
Opinion
Bring Back Thrift Week
As the nation pulls itself out of the Great Recession, writes David Lapp, maybe it’s time to reinstitute a tradition begun in 1916 that spanned 50 years and hundreds of classrooms: National Thrift Week.
Curriculum
Games Evolve as Tools for Teaching Financial Literacy
Many educators are turning to digital games to teach students about personal finance and investing.
Education Funding
Report Roundup
Financial Literacy
A new study suggests that a game designed to teach students how the stock market works boosts their skills in both mathematics and financial literacy.
Curriculum
Opinion
Don't Give Up on Personal-Finance Education
“The earlier a young person learns about using money responsibly, the greater the chance that he or she will adopt sensible money habits and put them to good use for a lifetime," says Lewis Mandell.
Education Funding
News in Brief
Financial-Literacy Requirements
As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington-based nonprofit group Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial-services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.
Education
Teachers Encourage Financial-Literacy Instruction
Teachers overwhelmingly think that high school students should be taught rudimentary aspects of personal finance, according to a new survey by Americans Well-Informed on Automotive Retailing Economics, a group that promotes consumer education on car financing.
Curriculum
Subprime Financial Education?
With the collapse of the subprime-mortgage market—and the crisis it has created for the economy—there have been calls for schools to take on yet another task: financial literacy. Many are, apparently, if you consider that more 20,000 high school students in 20 states took the Financial Literacy Certification Test this year, according to WISE, or Working in Support of Education, a nonprofit that promotes financial and business education.
