Financially fit students: the importance of teaching students how to be good money managers is catching on around the country.
State Legislatures › Vol. 33 Nbr. 5, May 2007
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Financially fit students: the importance of teaching students how to be good money managers is catching on around the country.
Like most disasters, Hurricane Katrina brought out the best and worst in people. For at least one Mississippi teacher, the storm provided a teaching moment--in economics. Pam Carrubba, a master teacher of economics at Bay-Waveland Middle School in Bay St. Louis, Miss., used Katrina to help students understand FEMA debit cards, rebuilding family finances, and the connection between poverty and the problems resulting from the hurricane. It was a real-life opportunity to teach her students how being smart financially could empower them to improve their lives.
Determined to turn out financially literate graduates, Mississippi and Tennessee have embarked on ambitious programs to infuse personal finance education into their K-12 curricula. Mississippi is the first state to roll out...See the full content of this document
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