THEEE are obvious differences between the students in high schools or academies, studying elementary economics, and the older students engaged in collegiate or university work, in both maturity and ...

Like chicken and waffles, economics and personal finance complement each other — individually wonderful and even better together. Learning economics has added benefits as well. Understanding these ...

In 2012, I read an article on Breitbart.com that called out liberal bias in the teaching of economics. The author pointed to ...

Recent pedagogical research in economics has increasingly emphasised the use of experiments and media to transform traditional instruction methods. This innovative approach combines interactive ...

Can children’s literature be used to teach economics to elementary school students? Some think so. The Council for Economic Education calls it “sneak-onomics.” I ran across the term while reading the ...

At Hinsdale South High School, Jeff Waterman is known for far more than teaching economics—he’s known for changing lives. For nearly two decades, Waterman, a social studies teacher, has brought ...

This week: Updates on Kshama Sawant’s reelection victory in the Seattle City Council race; the obesity problem’s costs and causes in the U.S.; critiquing libertarian arguments in favor of capitalism; ...

ECONOMISTS can be a haughty bunch. But a decade of trauma has had a chastening effect. They are rethinking old ideas, asking new questions and occasionally welcoming heretics back into the fold.

[Editor’s Note: Dr. Mary Hirschfeld is Associate Professor of Economics and Theology in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. She holds Ph.D.s in economics (Harvard, 1989) and theology ...

Paul Solman, the premier economics reporter of public television, takes great pride in what he considers the secret of his art. It is this: Ask the stupid question. In the arcane world of economics, ...

TEACHERS for maths, science and for special and bilingual education have long been hard to find and keep. Filling empty slots in rural and in low-achieving urban districts is not easy either. This is ...