Program brings financial instruction into classroom<http://loan-for-study.blogspot.com/> Timothy Warren asked his young audience for a show of hands if they knew where money came from. As quickly as hands popped up, youngsters shouted out answers. “The money machine at the bank,” said one student. “From my parents,” said another. And finally: “Money comes from trees.” That response brought a wide smile across Warren’s face. “Yes, money is printed from paper that comes from trees,” he said, “but real money doesn’t grow on trees.” For nearly an hour, Warren and colleague Thomas Clough bantered about saving, investing and other money topics with an ethnically diverse mix of about 75 fourth- and fifth-graders from Stony Point North Elementary School in Kansas City, Kan. Warren and Clough were volunteer instructors for the day as part of Project Change, a new financial education program sponsored by the Securities and Exchange Commission; the Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, a self-regulatory group. There is a growing push from educators and legislators nationwide to incorporate instruction on personal finance into classroom curriculum starting at the grade-school level. In addition, 21 states, including Kansas and Missouri, now require some form of personal finance exposure for students before they graduate from high school. Read more Click Here<http://loan-for-study.blogspot.com/2009/12/program-brings-financial-instruction.html>
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