Educators hear economics can be fun to teach, learn
Economics Arkansas and Dr. Curt Anderson from the University of Minnesota showed a group of school administrators that economics lessons could be fun. Anderson led the group at the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators conference yesterday through an interactive exercise on price setting in various market situtations.
Through sponsorship of Economics Arkansas, Anderson will be offering a lot more of that type of training next spring and summer as Arkansas schools gear up to offer a semester course in economics in all public high schools. The course will be required for graduation beginning with the class of 2013-2014 and may be taken as a half unit credit in either social studies or career focus tracks (the latter must be taught by a licensed business education teacher.)
Posted by JJT.
