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The Adding Up to a Lifetime resource is an activities and video based resource to learn about personal finance. Download or use online. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A good website with ideas and resource for teaching about money and finance. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Free downloadable E-books for personal finance

This is a beautifully made 3D animated virtual board game which teaches about money and finance in a fun and entertaining way. Add money to your piggybank by completing tasks and making good choices. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Disclosure: I am the author of these children's books.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., the top school in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best High Schools rankings, is designed to challenge students. A course load of offerings that include DNA science, neurology, and quantum physics would seem to be more than enough to meet that goal. But students and the faculty felt those classes weren't enough, so they decided to tackle another big question: What are the social responsibilities of educated people? Over the course of the school year, students are exploring social responsibility through projects of their own design, ranging from getting school supplies for students with cerebral palsy in Shanghai to persuading their classmates to use handkerchiefs to reduce paper waste. The One Question project demonstrates the way "TJ," as it's referred to by students and teachers, encourages the wide-ranging interests of its students.

" Because these students cannot fully portray their family's finances, the amount of aid they receive may not fairly reflect their needs."

I want my students to be sceptics. I believe that in the present age scepticism is more important than ever. Easy access to information, ease of publishing, scams and confidence tricksters combine to create a climate where blind trust is dangerous for our security, our finances and our knowledge bases. For students of all ages a healthy dose of scepticism is much needed not just so they may reveal falsehoods but to allow them to discover new truths.

Your students have entered the world of business and finance by participating in The Stock Market Game program. The perfect companion, our teacher-designed writing component and competition, reinforces their newfound knowledge and hones critical thinking skills.

Explains how Japan has responded to the breaking of their real estate market bubble and the effect it has had on Japan's economy

Back-to-College Special: Academic Contributions Aren't Just Cerebral

"Numericable dévoile son projet de croissance pour le « nouveau » SFR"

But how can we identify a potentially good teacher? How can average teachers become better teachers? The secretary's special funding could make a crucial difference by financing a national program exploiting the electronic miracles of the Internet and video. We could escape geography by using the technology to have the best teachers appear in hundreds of thousands of disparate classrooms. This is a force multiplier. The classrooms would be equipped with a large, flat-screen monitor with whiteboards on either side; the monitor would be connected to a school server that contains virtually all of the lessons for every subject taught in the school, from kindergarten through 12th grade. The contents would use animation, video, dramatization, and presentation options to deliver complete lessons, to convey ideas in unique ways that are now unavailable in conventional classrooms. The classroom teachers would play the role of enhancers, answering questions and helping students better understand the material covered electronically; they'd pause the presentation to ask questions and to prompt critical thinking. The whiteboard would be the platform for student involvement.

Good use of Kindle for class with LD kids

Fantastic article dissecting and disproving the latest spin on charter data from our Governor and the NJDOE

Bruce Baker at School Finance 101 nails it ... again. "As they presently operate, however, many of the standout schools do not represent scalable reforms. And on average, New Jersey charters are still… just… average. "