Economics Education Brightens Up

摘要

It has been more than 160 years since British historian Thomas Carlyle dubbed economics the "dismal science." Given the dreary state of things today, you probably won't find many arguments to the contrary. One effect of the current bleak economic climate has been an increasing stress on the importance' of teaching the fundamentals of finance to K-12 students. But the financial literacy education we have now is a long way from learning to balance a checkbook in home economics class.