By CEE The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is excited to announce the expansion of our National Economics Challenge (NEC) internationally as part of the World Youth Forum-Future Economics Leadership Summit (WYF-FELS). The CEE National Economics Challenge will be featured as part of the five-day WYF-FELS summit, being held in Hong Kong August 6-10. WYF-FELS […]

By CEE Think fast! What are two actions that the Federal Reserve might take to combat inflation? If the average cost of producing four cars is $20,000 and the average cost of producing five cars is $22,000, what is the marginal cost of producing the fifth car? Racing to answer more than 20 rapid-fire questions […]

RI Council and RI Jump$tart are excited to announce the state winners for the 2024 RI Finance Challenge and 2024 RI Econ Challenge:   2024 RI Finance Challenge Results High School Division 1st Place and National Finalist School: North Kingstown High School Teacher: Richard Garland Team: NKHS Team 1   2nd Place School: North Providence […]

More than 100 educators, non-profit leaders, government officials, and students met to help build a brighter financial future for our students and communities at the 8th Annual Financial Capability Conference at Rhode Island College on Saturday December 2, 2023. This Conference was designed to help prepare students to meet RI’s new 2024 Financial Literacy graduation […]

The results are in! Here are the following RI schools that were recognized for their outstanding performance: _______________________________________ High School Division 1st Place: LaSalle Academy, LSA Team 1, Teacher Christina Milano 2nd Place: North Kingstown High, NK Team PaxBlanchManJang, Teacher Richard Garland 3rd Place: Tolman High, Tolman Tigers 5, Teacher Robert D’Arezzo 4th Place: East Greenwich […]

The 7th annual Global Economic Symposium (GES) was held virtually on Friday March 12, 2021. Prior to the event, more than 70 high school and middle school students from MA, NJ, NY, RI and TX worked in teams to conduct research on a global economic problem that each team identified. College student mentors from Bentley […]

The results are in! Here are the following RI schools to be recognized for their outstanding performance: _______________________________________  Adam Smith High School Division 1st Place: East Greenwich High School, Team EG3, Teacher Tim McPartlin 2nd Place: West Warwick High School, Team WWHS1, Teacher Marc LeBlanc 3rd Place: Scituate High School, Team 3, Teacher Dennis Ballou 4th […]