Should Personal Finance be Taught in Schools? The Research Says…

I’ve long believed that teaching personal finance in our public schools was one of the potential cures for our “living paycheck-to-paycheck” culture. In fact, I advocated for teaching personal finance in schools in one of the first articles I ever published on this site, more than a decade ago. Recently, an increasing number of states (now 19 total) have agreed with this premise enough to mandate that their high schools teach personal finance to their students. Intuitively, this makes a lot of sense. Most Americans have had close to zero personal finance education in their...

[Read the rest of the story at 20somethingfinance.com]