“The 2016 Survey of the States shows that there has been slow growth in personal finance education in recent years and no improvement in economic education.

 2016 Key Findings

• Since 2014, two additional states include personal finance in their K-12 standards and require those standards to be taught.
• While more states are implementing standards in personal finance, the number of states that require high school students to take a course in personal finance remains unchanged since 2014 – just 17 states.
• Only 20 states require high school students to take a course in economics – that’s less than half the country and two fewer states than in 2014.
• There has been no change in the number of states that require standardized testing of economic concepts – the number remains at 16.

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