Take the challenge to help teens, schools learn financial literacy. As you may have heard many times, I feel teaching kids about money early on is one of the best things we can do to help them succeed.
I've been pleased and honored to be involved in the first-ever National Financial Literacy Challenge. Sponsored by the U.S. Treasury Department in conjunction with the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, this test was taken by 46,000 high school students across the country this past April and May. To give you an idea of the challenge these students faced, here are some sample questions. You'll find the answers at the end of the column. •1. A. B. C. D.
E. . •2. A. B. C. D. . •3. E. Whether the answers come easily to you or not, the ideas point to some financial basics that should be a standard part of our education. Scores point to a national need While the number of students who participated in the challenge is encouraging, a look at the scores tells a different story. Information needs and information competencies: a case study of the off-site supervision of financial institutions in Brazil. Introduction The research problem tried to identify information needs and information competencies for off-site supervisors of financial institutions located in Brazil.
The specific purpose was to study how information needs and information competencies of this professional group could be identified applying an informational point of view. Organizational activities are ordinarily studied from an organizational (managerial) point of view, even when it concerns information. Thus, the main issue of the research was to consider informational parameters instead of organizational parameters to address the problem and to study the activity with information science parameters. A combined theoretical and methodological approach was adopted to identify both information needs and information competencies, establishing a possible link between these two, usually separated, approaches. Theoretical basis: subject development. Financial literacy effort may miss mark -
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Congress works with partnership of financial education leaders to host educational summit marking Financial Literacy Month. Washington, D.C. – The sixth annual Financial Literacy “Day on the Hill” will take place today on Capitol Hill in the Hart Senate Building Room 902. Jack E. “This event is a natural fit for Jump$tart because it is a powerful depiction of the collective strength of many organizations working together, yet still a showcase of the unique, individual contributions of each,” said Laura Levine, executive director of the Jump$tart Coalition, who is also a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy. Separately, the U.S. The Financial Literacy “Day on the Hill” event was sponsored by the American Institute of CPAs, Bank of America, Capital One, Freddie Mac, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, HSBC-North America, and State Farm.
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