Financial Education Can Pay Dividends for Youth
Financial Education Can Pay Dividends for Youth According to statistics from the National Council on Economic Education, only seven states require high school students to take a personal finance course while eight others require courses with personal finance content. This was from a 2004 survey that also showed only nine states test personal finance knowledge. These numbers are beginning to change as the state of Missouri joins the fray and will require one-half unit of credit in personal finance instruction for graduation in 2010. A 2004 national survey by the Jump$ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy measured 12th graders’...