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2016 Survey of the States: Economic and Personal Finance Education in Our Nation’s Schools

“The 2016 Survey of the States shows that there has been slow growth in personal finance education in recent years and no improvement in economic education.

 2016 Key Findings

  • Since 2014, two additional states include personal finance in their K-12 standards and require those standards to be taught.
  • While more states are implementing standards in personal finance, the number of states that require high school students to take a course in personal finance remains unchanged since 2014 – just 17 states.
  • Only 20 states require high school students to take a course in economics – that’s less than half the country and two fewer states than in 2014.
  • There has been no change in the number of states that require standardized testing of economic concepts – the number remains at 16.

Download the study to find out more about each individual state.”

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