This document identifies goals, rationale, key concepts, general teaching ideas, and resource materials for teaching consumer and economic education. The document is intended to provide guidelines for elementary, secondary, and adult education programs which emphasize (1) understanding of the relationships between economic, political, and social…

Students nearing high school graduation need more than the skills and information given them in the past 12 years; they also need to know "how" to learn. The Senior Seminar, which is a program offering a semester of interdisciplinary experiential learning, teaches students to become independent, self-directed learners by first presenting…