More universities and colleges nationwide are offering courses to teach students how to manage their own money. By Ann Carrns Sean Karaman, a freshman at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, hadn’t ...

The good news is that personal finance education is being embraced in high schools across the country. The big challenge our nation faces is that teaching this subject requires confident and highly ...

At UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell College, a remarkable course is setting new standards in financial education. COWL 52 – Personal Finance and Investing, a 5-unit asynchronous online class, stands out not ...

Personal Finance 101 is a newsletter series from Forbes aimed at breaking down the basics of budgeting, debt management and more. It’s no secret that financial literacy in the U.S. is lacking. Just 23 ...

Surprisingly, just over half the high school students in the United States have access to a personal finance course in school. Almost all the personal finance requirements are limited to a half credit ...

Since 2013, there has been a significant increase in the number of states requiring students to take a personal finance course before graduation, according to a report from Champlain College. The ...

Getting all stakeholders to agree on existing K-12 curriculum, let alone newly proposed material, can be tough—as anyone embroiled in ongoing “curriculum wars ” can attest. But one subject appears to ...

The State Board of Education last week agreed on a draft list of topics for a newly required personal finance class that will teach students about savings accounts and credit scores.

At a Monday meeting, members of the Manchester Board of School Committee peppered N.H. Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut with questions and concerns about his department’s proposed changes to the ...