The Selma Enterprise – Jason Alderman
“A first-time global financial literacy study shows that the keys to successful personal finance education are student perseverance and an openness to problem solving. That’s one of the main findings in the inaugural financial literacy portion of the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) test…U.S. students earned an average score of 492 out of a possible 700, which ranks those teens between eighth and 12th place among all 18 participating countries and economies…Countries with students who scored better than their U.S. counterparts seem dedicated to a nationwide, mandatory personal finance curriculum…Bottom line: The results from the first-ever global high school financial literacy test show that organized and systemwide personal finance training helps students excel at money management.”(more)