By Carol H Cox
Public school systems that offer personal finance courses are still the exception, and not the rule. The 2016 Council for Economic Education Survey of the States found that only 17 states required high schools students to complete a course on personal finance. State public educational systems are huge bureaucracies that take a long time and a lot of energy to change course. We can’t solely depend on public education to provide the personal finance training that our children need to prepare them for post-high school life. We parents need to fill this void. Continue reading “On the Front Line for Teen Literacy”