OverviewThe 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 InformationThis 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
- Essential Reasoning and Decision-making Skills
Practical applications of economics knowledge for the graduating student
- Rationales
Explanations of how understanding each principleimproves students' lives
- Benchmarks
Expected achievement levels for grades 4, 8, and 12, with assessment exercises
- Correlations
Citing EconomicsAmerica lessons to demonstrate principles
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