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Program Highlights

Online Teacher Training Online Teacher Training
Check out our new online training modules. Teacher training anytime and anywhere!

EconEdLink EconEdLink
More than 616 lessons to choose from - and they're all FREE!

Financing Your Future Financing Your Future
A complete personal finance program on DVD for high school teachers and their students.

Civics & Government Civics & Government
Download a free lesson plan, "Can Futures Markets Be More Accurate Than Polls?" from the upcoming Focus: Understanding Economics in Civics and Government.

Virtual Economics® Virtual Economics®
Version 3 is here! With over 1,200 supplemental lesson plans for K-12 teachers - plus multimedia concept demonstrations and state standards correlations - it's never been easier to teach economics and personal finance.

Thinking Economics Thinking Economics
Explore a new, interactive way to teach economics and connect with your students with this unique high school economics curriculum that is your high-tech alternative to a textbook.

Economics in U.S. History Economics in U.S. History
This new publication uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students.

AP Economics AP Economics
The best way to prepare your students for the AP* exam.
*AP is a registered trademark of the College Board which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse this website.

Financial Fitness for Life Financial Fitness for Life
Can you choose the better incentive? Try the grades 6-8 interactive activity to see if you can.

Economics International® Economics International®
Check out the Resources A to Z lessons. They're online and they're FREE to use.

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Publications Catalog

Council for Economic Education Publications CatalogLooking for economics and personal finance lesson plans for your classroom?

Check out our collection of over 80 economics and personal finance publications for your K-12 classroom.

You may also want to check out our NEW e-Catalog which includes videos of teachers.

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National Summit on Economic and Financial Literacy

National Summit The Council for Economic Education's recently-convened 3rd National Summit on Economic and Financial Literacy offered an important and unique opportunity to focus on the shared priority of and calls to action for both the public and private sector in advancing economic and financial education efforts in our nation's schools.

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2009 Visionary Awards

Save the Date: Visionary AwardsSAVE THE DATE – The Council proudly presents the 2009 Visionary Awards Dinner honoring Champions of Economic Empowerment - Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. 

Join us this year as we honor Roger Ferguson, Suze Orman, Charles Schwab and Gary Stern.

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

Survey of the StatesThe Report Card - Survey of the States: Economic, Personal Finance, and Entrepreneurship Education in Our Nation's Schools in 2007, was released by the Council for Economic Education on June 13, 2007 during an online press conference.

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Excellence in Economic Education

NEW! The Council for Economic Education has been granted the Excellence in Economic Education (EEE) Act award by the U.S. Department of Education for the fourth year of the program. The EEE award will infuse approximately $1.475 million, plus matching dollars, into state and local organizations dedicated to raising the level of competence in economic and financial literacy.

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Annual Conference

The Council for Economic Education/National Association of Economic Educators/Global Association of Teachers of Economics Annual Conference will be held October 7-10, 2009, in the nation’s capital at the Hyatt Regency Washington Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. This year’s conference hosted by the Council for Economic Education also celebrates the Council’s 60th Anniversary year.

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GATE

GATE brochureThe Global Association of Teachers of Economics (GATE) is a national and international membership organization sponsored by NCEE exclusively for K-12 teachers and others.

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