Tonica Tatum-Gormes, who teaches the course, says yes. She attributes better student engagement to them seeing the connection between math and their future financial well-being.

America’s high school and college students are lagging in terms of basic financial literacy, according to a new study from the SPARK Institute and Corporate Insight Inc. The research, released Friday ...

Even though a lot of us deal with student loans, credit cards and everyday expenses, personal finance education is nonexistent in most college curriculums. According to surveys, only 18% of Americans ...

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Yet the majority of students still don’t have a grasp on basic financial matters, according to a recent research paper. The paper, titled Financial Literacy and Student Debt: Survey of College ...

In the U.S., attention to financial literacy has grown since the Great Recession, spawning various measures to increase youth financial education. State-level school mandates are one such measure ...

Students at Vacaville Christian High School participated in a financial literacy course through Travis Credit Union on Monday. (Photo by Nick McConnell) By Nick McConnell | nmcconnell@thereporter.com ...

Angelica Coubb, a student at Sacramento Charter High School, reacts to “losing” a fictional $200 on a spinning wheel during a financial literacy workshop held at the school by Golden 1 Credit ...

BOSTON - Credit scores, interest rates and taxes. Nine out of 10 students in Massachusetts are not required to learn about these things. Should the state make financial literacy a requirement for ...

The financial literacy class would teach public school students how to read a pay stub, balance a checking account, use credit cards wisely, save for the future and avoid scams.