HS Economics

The economics content at the high school level is necessary for the understanding and the analysis of a wide variety of applications, including those involving individual and household choices, personal finance issues, business and entrepreneurial decisions, and public policy. Students analyze and study economic concepts and principles in three contextual areas: individual and household context, a business context, and a government or public context and focused around four content areas: The Market Economy; The National Economy; the International Economy; and Personal Finance.

About the Curriculum

The Economics curriculum enables teachers to:

• Concentrate on the craft of teaching, including customizing materials for student needs, instead of searching for resources and designing curriculum;
• Embed explicit reading and writing strategies in an inquiry-oriented course that prepares students for the demands of college-level study in the social sciences;
• Shift the teaching of the high school Economics survey course from presentational to inquiry mode, so that students perceive Economics not as facts to be memorized, but as content to be applied to the real world
• Engage and motivate students by exploring genuine, challenging questions (that economists grapple with);
• Complicate conventional stories and take a clear-eyed look at injustice, social conflict, and change so that students can better understand their present world, how it got that way, and what might be done to influence its trajectory.

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