The
mission of The Maryland Council on Economic Education is to
assure that Maryland's school children leave high school equipped
with the economic knowledge and decision-making skills they
need to make informed, rational decisions as consumers, workers,
citizens, savers, investors and participants in the global
economy. An understanding of basic economic principles and
our free enterprise system is vital to an individual's ability
to be a responsible consumer, a productive worker, a prudent
saver, an investor, and an informed voter. Considering both
the short and long-term economic consequences of, for example,
spending and saving decisions, how much education and training
to invest in, what career to choose, and the positions of
political candidates on critical issues, is something children
must be taught how to do.
To find out more about personal finance education, please visit the Maryland Coalition for Financial Literacy
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