Tag «personal finance»

The 2019 Massachusetts Personal Finance Challenge

The Personal Finance Challenge is a 30-question, rapid-fire exam with questions from categories on Income and Money Management, Spending and Credit, and Saving and Investing. Teams will complete the exam online between March 25 and April 5. Each student will have 35 minutes, and all team members must complete the exam within 3 hours. Click …

Needs vs Wants

Identifying needs vs wants makes the budgeting process a whole lot easier. The sooner you realize what a need is versus what a want is, the quicker you will be able to reach your financial goals. Reducing your needs can open a whole new world of possibilities. First, let me clear something up. I don’t …

The Personal Finance Classroom Priority

We live in a world dominated by test scores and school report cards. We have standards to follow that drive the assessments which measure what students learn and in most states the evaluation score of a teacher. There are some who believe the weight of this process is appropriate… in Ohio, 50% of our evaluation is …

FREE Financial Literacy Micro-Credentials

From our friends at the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC): In collaboration with Digital Promise and with the support of PwC, GFLEC is working to help bridge the gap between students’ need for personal finance education and teachers’ need for professional resources. We used our research experience and the Council for Economic Education’s National Standards …