National Content Standards in K- 12 Economics

This economics manual provides a framework for teaching economics in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Revised in 2025, this 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:

The National Content Standards in K–12 Economics offers 260 benchmarks grouped into 18 economic pillars including business and market structure, roles of government, labor and income, international trade, inflation and – new in this edition – technology. These standards are designed to be relevant for different grade levels.