Terri Huggins is an award-winning journalist, researcher, and speaker with more than 10 years of experience. Her work writing about personal finance, parenting, and emotional wellbeing has been ...

Getting all stakeholders to agree on existing K-12 curriculum, let alone newly proposed material, can be tough—as anyone embroiled in ongoing “curriculum wars ” can attest. But one subject appears to ...

With just 15% of Americans enrolled in defined benefit plans run by their employers, it’s necessary for Americans to get better educated on personal finance. All states promote financial literacy, ...

Earlier this summer, as the yearly budget grabbed the daily headlines, a noteworthy bill was passed out of the Senate Education Committee in late June. Senate Bill 1243, of which I am the primary ...

The tide is finally turning on personal finance education. Over half of all states now mandate courses on the subject to graduate from high school, there are long waitlists to get into personal ...

How many high school students have sat in a required math class and asked themselves: Will I ever use (fill in the blank) in my daily life? In 2020, Forbes posed a similar question about algebra, ...

Ten years later, Lusardi and Mitchell are out with a new paper, similarly titled, but much more upbeat. "The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening A New Field," picks up where their 2013 study of ...

In December of last year, Gov. Tony Evers signed into law Wisconsin Act 60, requiring all high school students take a half-credit personal finance course, starting with the class of 2028. Now 26 ...

Given a persistent state of economic uncertainty, it’s not surprising more American parents are taking financial education into their own hands. According to a recent survey, 93% of parents with ...