{"id":4439,"date":"2021-04-21T02:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/?page_id=4439"},"modified":"2023-03-12T00:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T00:14:17","slug":"news-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/news-information\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#038; Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_64 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662bfcc7d2737\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662bfcc7d2737\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/news-information\/#The_state_of_K%E2%80%9312_economic_and_financial_education_in_the_United_States\" title=\"The state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States.\">The state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/news-information\/#Key_Findings\" title=\"Key Findings\">Key Findings<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/news-information\/#About_Survey_of_the_States\" title=\"About Survey of the States\">About Survey of the States<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_state_of_K%E2%80%9312_economic_and_financial_education_in_the_United_States\"><\/span>The state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Findings\"><\/span>Key Findings<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2016, no additional states have added personal finance to their K-12 standards or requirements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only 1\/3 of states require their students to graduate having taken a personal finance class.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhetoric is not meeting action: while policy makers and the public regularly call for us to do better as a nation, those calls are not translating into real legislative change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2022\u201cIf it\u2019s not tested it\u2019s not taught\u201d, and a few states are ensuring that robust testing accompanies classroom instruction \u2013 only 16 states for economics and a mere 7 for personal finance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_Survey_of_the_States\"><\/span>About Survey of the States<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Every two years, the Council for Economic Education (CEE) conducts a comprehensive look into the state of K-12 economic and financial education in the United States, collecting data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The biennial&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.councilforeconed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-Survey-of-the-States.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Survey of the States<\/em>&nbsp;<\/a>serves as an important benchmark for our progress, revealing both how far we\u2019ve come and how far we still have to go. There has been notable progress since the first survey was published in 1998, yet the pace of change has slowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States. Key Findings About Survey of the States Every two years, the Council for Economic Education (CEE) conducts a comprehensive look into the state of K-12 economic and financial education in the United States, collecting data from all 50 states and the District of &#8230; <a title=\"News &#038; Information\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/news-information\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News &#038; Information\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Table of Contents ToggleThe state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States.Key FindingsAbout Survey of the States The state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States. Key Findings Since 2016, no additional states have added personal finance to their K-12 standards or requirements. Only 1\/3 of states require their students to graduate having taken a personal finance class. Rhetoric is not meeting action: while policy makers and the public regularly call for us to do better as a nation, those calls are not translating into real legislative change. \u2022\u201cIf it\u2019s not tested it\u2019s not&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"","author_info":{"name":"Michael","url":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/author\/leigh\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Table of Contents ToggleThe state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States.Key FindingsAbout Survey of the States The state of K\u201312 economic and financial education in the United States. 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Rhetoric is not meeting action: while policy makers and the public regularly call for us to do better as a nation, those calls are not translating into real legislative change. \u2022\u201cIf it\u2019s not tested it\u2019s not&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"Michael","url":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/author\/leigh\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdfinancialskills.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}