Commentary: personal financial education in the high school curriculum

Gary R. Jaeckel

International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 5-14

Abstract: Personal finance and economics are two distinct subjects, with some common characteristics, that require instruction by highly qualified teachers. In an ideal world each would be taught in high school; yet in most high schools in the USA there is not room for both. Today, approximately two thirds of high school graduates should have taken a course in economics while only 13% are required to take a stand-alone financial literacy class. The author contends that personal financial education should be the preferred course and that strictly personal finance topics be supplemented with some micro and macro economics.

Keywords: economics education; personal finance education; high school curricula; economic literacy; financial literacy; microeconomics; macroeconomics; USA; United States. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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