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Tennessee May Soon Require Financial Literacy Classes For High School Students

The Tennessee State Board of Education is expected to pass a bill on January 25th that will make Tennesee the eighth state (after Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, South Dakota, and Utah) to require that its high school students take a personal finance class before graduation. More »

5:40 PM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Chris Walters
1,617 views, 32 comments

education

"Checkbook Math" Being Phased Out Of High Schools

We may indeed have a nation of financially illiterate youths, but despite cries for increased financial education in public high schools, the one program that's historically addressed this—"checkbook math"—has never enjoyed a reputation as a "real" math class because the actual math skills involved are so basic, and it's being phased out as most students avoid it because, as one student says, it "doesn't look good for colleges." More »

7:19 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Chris Walters
2,577 views, 46 comments

propaganda

Government Wants To Sneak Financial Info Onto Soaps And Telenovelas

When we posted about "30 Rock" last Friday, a reader SHOUTED IN ALL CAPS that someone—either NBC, or Tina Fey, or maybe The Consumerist, we're not sure—is a government shill for basically being paid by the gov to write about financial advice. Turns out Mr. Shouty is right, sort of: the U.S. Treasurer, Anna Escobedo Cabral, was on the radio news program "Marketplace" a couple of weeks ago to talk about how she's been meeting with the creative teams of soap operas and telenovelas to find ways to incorporate financial storylines into their plots. More »

6:28 AM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Chris Walters
1,276 views, 19 comments

Latest by Kajj: What the hell? Why go to a gay place there? Fiscal responsibility and social tolerance aren't at odds with each other. And show me a public school in this country that would even THINK about putting "Heather has Two Mommies" more »