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Setting goals will walk you through why goals are important and how you establish them.

In this personal finance lesson, students will analyze and develop stay-in-school incentive programs for a group of students.

Income for most people is determined by the market value of the productive resources they sell. What workers earn depends, primarily, on the market value of what they produce and how productive they are.

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 43: Why Are Some Nations Wealthy? from CEE's Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics publication. In this lesson, students work in groups to examine data from several nations regarding size, natural resources, and population. Usi…

Through innovation and technology, California think tank Singularity University aims to push the frontiers of progress. But what happens when high-tech advances end up in the wrong hands? Economics correspondent Paul Solman raises some disturbing questions as part of his ongoing reporting se…

In this personal finance lesson, students will compare simple and compound interest on savings.

This lesson stimulates students' thinking with stories about rigorous athlete training illustrating the importance of training and practice. After students read the story, they will experiment to see how instruction and practice improves their ability to make an origami dog.

Teach your students about the benefits of being an entrepreneur. In this video a young woman starts her own business cleaning garages and does so well that she is able to expand her business. CEE's Entrepreneurship Economics publication introduces students to entrepreneurship through a reso…

Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies, looking to greater longevity and better health. As part of his series on Making $ense of financial news, correspondent Paul Solman explores …

In this lesson, students will learn about current trends in student borrowing and determine a reasonable debt load for hypothetical students. College costs have escalated over the past two decades, and more and more students are relying on student loans to cover the costs.  Therefore…