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Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics

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Overview

The essential guide for curriculum developers, administrators, teachers, and education and economics professors, the standards provide a framework and benchmarks for teaching economics to K-12 students.


Detailed Information

Revised in 2010!

This essential guide for curriculum developers - department chairs, superintendents, teachers, education professors - was designed to teach our nation's schoolchildren about basic economics and the economy. Helping young people develop economic ways of thinking and problem solving prepares them to be wise consumers, investors, and savers.The volume contains:
  • 20 Content Standards
    The most important and enduring ideas, concepts, and issues of economics
  • Benchmarks
    Expected achievement levels for grades 4, 8, and 12, with assessment exercises


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