• Highland teacher Marlee Barton is KY’s Financial Literacy Teacher of Year, uses project-based learning (Northern Kentucky Tribune) 

From balancing a checkbook to making a budget to planning for retirement, the lessons of personal finance can stay with students for a lifetime. At the October meeting of the Fort Thomas Independent School Board, Marlee Barton, a Family and Consumer Science teacher at Highlands High  and Highlands Middle schools, was honored for her work teaching middle school students the ins and outs of day-to-day finance.

• In Delaware, Creating Career Pathways for Youths (Education Week)

What would it take for a state to ensure that students develop the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to be prepared for college and a career? Delaware is taking on that challenge. Under an initiative known as Delaware Pathways, 9,000 high school students are currently taking college classes, working as interns in real jobs, and earning genuine work credentials.

• Career Focus At Nashville Schools Leads To Use Of High Tech Aptitude Test (Nashville Public Radio)

Rather than just asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, Nashville’s public schools are experimenting with a new test developed by a local company to help students figure out what they’re naturally good at. Metro Schools have already made a big push to get students thinking about careers early on — this is the next step in also helping them find the right fit. 

"Pennies to Paychecks" Energizes North Dakota Students (PRWeb)

• North Dakota Securities Department and The National Theatre for Children (NTC) have partnered to educate and inspire North Dakota students and their families. From October 30 through November 3, 2017, professional actors from NTC will visit 10 middle schools with live performances of Pennies to Paychecks: Learning About Earning, sparking conversations on financial literacy in classrooms throughout eastern North Dakota.

Alumni ‘teaching the basics’ in podcast (The Temple News)

• Once Kevin Frech graduated in 2015 and started making money, he would blow his paychecks every weekend on food, drinks and random items on Amazon, like clothes and video games. Frech, a 2015 geography and urban studies alumnus, and Dan Miller, a 2014 sport and recreation management alumnus, had to learn how to manage their finances, like learning to save part of their incomes and how to pay back credit card bills. The duo — which met at Temple in the fraternity Alpha Kappa Lambda — realized other college graduates go through the same financial struggles they experienced.

About the Author

Laura Matchett

After graduating with an education degree and spending 7 years in an elementary classroom, Laura made the switch to the non-profit world and loves interacting with students, educators and business professionals across the country. She is passionate about all students having access to high quality education and views personal finance education as one way to ‘level the playing field’. When Laura is not locating or creating high quality educational resources, you can find her mountain biking or searching for the best ramen in town!