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- Title: Economic Literacy: Baseline Data for Standards Based Instruction and Curriculum (Economic EDUCATION ARTICLES)
- Author : Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 273 KB
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ABSTRACT Today's students, the next generation of consumer decision-makers, display misunderstandings and ignorance about our economic system. Two-thirds of high school students failed a nationally normed test of economic understanding, including the core concepts of money, inflation, and scarcity (Harris, 1999). These findings raise serious questions about the quality of the economic education students receive.