The most pleasant surprise in my first year teaching economics and government full-time was being asked to take-on a ...
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, ...
If you studied economics, was the material you worked with ancient — almost as if it were printed on papyrus? The teaching methods for economics can be outdated. Well, now an international consortium ...
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; ...
Personal finance is an essential life skill so important that it’s become a part of the required curriculum in many states. Here’s the rub — with a finite number of hours in the school schedule and ...
Since fall 2016, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has welcomed 51 new colleagues to the ladder faculty. The incoming cohort comprises 17 new hires each for the divisions of the humanities, the social ...
“The world has changed, the syllabus hasn't.” That’s the motto of the Post-Crash Economics Society, a group of students at the University of Manchester who demand reforms to the way undergraduate ...
A new preparatory course in mathematics will make the transition from upper secondary school to university easier. Behind the ...
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 ...
Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...
The point of this single web page is to be a one-stop shop. The links below point to the various ways that I use or have used Excel to teach Economics, including my summer Excel teaching workshop. My ...