Welcome !
The mission of Entrepreneurship Educational Services, Inc. and its partners:
To provide animated, highly interactive, online entrepreneurship curricula anytime, anywhere.
Teaching financial literacy is the essence of our internet instructional resources and ongoing services for secondary and adult education.
Introduction
“Only 13 states make personal finance courses a high school graduation requirement, and only nine require testing” students’ performance. The excuses vary: Schools can’t afford them; financial literacy does not fit into CORE 40; which disciplines should teach the subject? As excuses are continually being made by educators, high school graduates are sent out the door ill-prepared for handling their fiscal responsibilities – applying for credit cards, auto loans, first-time home mortgage, etc. (Don Campbell, A Lesson Every Grad Needs but Doesn’t Get: Personal Finance, USA Today, May 5, 2010, pg A9). We believe financial literacy courses should be mandatory. PERIOD!
In the summer of 2010, stage two of the ‘Race To The Top’ recipients was announced. One aspect of President Obama’s $4.35 billion initiative will be teaching personal financial literacy. Each State Department of Education will eventually address this independently. Delaware, in its successful Stage #1 bid, included personal finances as one of the priorities (Delaware Personal Finance Standards (pdf)).
Executive Summary
The student portal will be user-friendly also but challenging since resources are written at a higher reading level compared to contemporary text book publishers (Greg Toppo, Dropouts say their schools expected too little of them, USA Today, March 2, 2006). The case studies presented in a video format will introduce the module concepts that the learner can relate to making it necessary for her to interact. Mastery based learning assessments will be required before the student can advance. Parents will be encouraged to access all materials for their personal use as well as to supplement their children’s learning.
EES, Inc. and its partners are committed to keeping the curricula current and relevant. This will involve collaboration from experienced business, agribusiness, marketing education and economics teachers and community college instructors to submit resources that will be compiled, edited and disseminated via the website. This was never intended to be a static project nor reach completion. It is an ongoing, ever changing, ever progressive collection of resources to teach financial literacy.
