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The North Carolina Council on Economic Education: Teaching Economics for Life

MISSION
To enhance and advance economic and financial education for the educators and students of North Carolina.

VISION
A North Carolina where all of its citizens have the knowledge, understanding and skills  make informed economic choices.

Since 1970, the North Carolina Council on Economic Education (NCCEE) has been committed to bringing economic, financial, and entrepreneurship education to every classroom in North Carolina. We are a non-profit educational organization offering a variety of programs designed to teach students how to make wise decisions that will impact the rest of their lives. In the 2025 calendar year, NCCEE provided professional development for 1,073 teachers impacting more than 107,881 students, the majority of whom were low to moderate-income students. Additionally, 19,692 students participated in academic competitions equaling a total reach of more than 127,570 students.

View the full 2025 report.

Economics and Personal Finance Professional Development

In 2019, NCCEE was named as the organization to provide teacher professional development for the newly required Economics and Personal Finance Course. Since the summer of 2020, NCCEE has provided this 40 hour professional development to 2,289 teachers during 68 EPF Institute sessions and has also offered ongoing single day and webinar sessions to provide continued support. Click here to see the number of students impacted, and more from our EPF Institute Report.

Teachers are our heroes!

Our 2025 Impact

107,881+
Students Helped

by our teacher professional development programs

19,692
Participated

in our academic competitions

129,218+
Students Reached

by NCCEE and the programs that we provide

Financial Education and the Exercise of Freedom

If asked to select just one theme that best exemplifies the American experience, what would you select? According to noted documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, the main American theme is freedom. He observes that freedom comes in many dimensions, both individual and collective.

Individual freedoms include those commonly recognized, such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, private property rights, and freedom of religion, among others. In the United States, each person also has the freedom to participate in our market economy and the opportunity to chart a unique course for his or her own life.

Improving economic and financial education in our schools is critical because it equips young people with the essential decision-making skills to exercise the many personal and economic freedoms this country still provides.

Our collective economic freedom depends on every individual, not just economists, understanding the basic principles which underlie our free enterprise system. The American economy is the quintessential intersection between individual and collective freedoms.

The principles of economics are not intuitive to most people. The best chance we have for successfully addressing our country’s many challenges is through economic education in our K-12 schools, which is the mission of the NCCEE.

1/4
of Millennials

Nearly one quarter of millennials spend more money than they earn.

67%
of Gen Y

67 percent of Generation Y have less than three months worth of emergency funds.

1,073
Confident Teachers

1,073 confident teachers better prepared to teach economics & personal finance in 2025

19,692
Students Growing their Knowledge

With the help of NCCEE, 19,692 students used technology and competition to grow their financial knowledge in 2025

221
Volunteers

221 volunteers served as financial literacy champions for students and teachers in 2025

Teachers

Are you a K-12 teacher in North Carolina? If you’re interested in attending economic and financial literacy workshops and courses or are interested in bringing competitions and more to your students, NCCEE offers all the resources you’ll need. Request a speaker or explore our curriculum resources, workshops, programs, and academic competitions to get started.

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Volunteers

If you have a passion for economic education and would like to be a volunteer with NCCEE, we’d love to hear from you.

Whether you’re interested in advancing economic literacy or volunteering your time at an event, we truly appreciate your investment in the education of North Carolina’s students.

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Partners

Are you interested in becoming a supporting partner of the North Carolina Council on Economic Education? There are a number of ways you can contribute to NCCEE, including becoming a member or sponsor or donating to our non-profit organization. Your contribution to NCCEE may be tax deductible and is vital in bringing economic and financial education programs to primary and secondary school classrooms across North Carolina.

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