What Personal Finance Is About

Using easy-to-understand examples, students explore important personal finance content and terminology, and discover how to apply today's economic principles to daily life.

This thorough and concise guide on the fundamentals of personal finance is an ideal addition to K-12 classrooms. Elementary teachers can use this resource to walk their students through an introduction to personal finance, and middle and high school teachers can use it as a student reader.

The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.

Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:

- Establishing and building credit

- Managing personal finances

- Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level

- Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.