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At the beginning of each school year, economics and personal finance teacher Alicia Mattias tells her students, “I’ll argue mine is the most important class you’ll take in high school. Every time you make a financial decision for the next 50 years, you’ll think of me.” The Millbrook Magnet High School teacher has been having […]
Fall air is slowly starting to settle across North Carolina and the NCCEE crew is as busy as ever hosting events to raise the profile of economics and personal finance in K-12 classrooms. As always, we are providing professional development to teachers so they can better educate their students. Economics and personal finance don’t exist […]
by Sandy Wheat, Executive Director This spring, people across the country are applauding another class of high school graduates. But if history is our guide, many of these young adults will be better prepared for college and careers than they are for managing a paycheck, building credit or avoiding high-cost debt. This underscores why the […]
No matter what subject we’re teaching children, we always strive to make the knowledge stick. It’s not easy and that lesson extends to the way we teach financial literacy. Linda P. Robinson, Ph.D., an Advanced Learning Teacher at Fox Road Elementary IB PYP Magnet School in Raleigh, knows these critical skills aren’t taught in a […]
The NCCEE team was at Fidelity Investment’s NC HQ last Friday for the thrilling finale of our state’s Personal Finance Challenge competition. Sixteen teams of high school students came together to showcase their knowledge of personal finance and compete for the state championship. Students began the day by taking a 15-minute written test. Then they […]
Fifty students from four North Carolina high schools gathered at Fidelity Investments Friday for the grand finale of Invest in Girls, a program of the Council for Economic Education facilitated in North Carolina by the North Carolina Council on Economic Education (NCCEE). The financial literacy initiative, done in partnership with Fidelity, helps young people take […]
Teens from across the U.S. gathered in Atlanta for the 14th Annual National Personal Finance Challenge, showcasing their financial literacy skills. The competition, organized by the Council for Economic Education, brought together high school teams from 28 states to test their knowledge in areas such as savings, investing, and retirement planning. “It’s never too early […]
Twelfth Grader Graham Mills Places 1st in North Carolina in the SIFMA Foundation’s Fall 2023 National InvestWrite® Competition. InvestWrite® is a national writing competition offered exclusively to teachers and 4th-12th grade students participating in The Stock Market Game™. Read the full press release here.
Seventh Grader Saahithi Kotha Places 7th Nationally in the SIFMA Foundation’s Fall 2023 National InvestWrite® Competition. InvestWrite® is a national writing competition offered exclusively to teachers and 4th-12th grade students participating in The Stock Market Game™. Read the full press release here.
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