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This workshop series is aimed at helping high school teachers
of economics learn effective lessons and techniques for bringing
this important and often little understood subject to their
students.
Produced for the Annenberg/CPB,
each of the eight workshops are organized along broad subject
lines. They feature a mix of introductory and background
information presented by noted economist Timothy Taylor,
actual in-classroom footage, and interviews with teachers
discussing their techniques, lesson plans and experiences.
The Economics Classroom
illustrates why this subject is losing its reputation as
"the dismal science." Economics can and should
become one of the most relevant and stimulating high school
courses. In the words of James Tobin, Nobel Laureate in
Economics, "The case for economic literacy is obvious.
High school graduates will be making economic choices all
their lives, as breadwinners and consumers, and as citizens
and voters. A wide range of people will bombard them with
economic information and misinformation for their entire
lives. They will need some capacity for critical judgment.
They will need it whether or not they go to college."
(Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 1986)
The eight programs in The Economics
Classroom cover the content areas of a typical
high school economics course, including scarcity, markets,
supply and demand, competition and monopoly, personal finance,
the role of government, measuring economic performance,
monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. The programs
also cover the content of the 20 Voluntary National Content
Standards in Economics.
Click
here to view the coordinated web site for the series.
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