Will Be Scheduled As Needed
Contact Michael Trueworthy to schedule a workshop.

Workshops will be custom tailored to your school or schools' needs. The Center with Connecticut Council on Economic Education support offers workshops in areas such as teaching economics in Mathematics or teaching economics in American or World History. These economic concepts will not only teach students reasoning and critical thinking skills, but enhance the core subject matter itself.

We also can provide current topics workshops on such issues as Globalization, Economic Development, Poverty and Wealth, etc. Financial literacy, entrepreneurship and career forecasts and prospects might also of interest to you and your teachers.

However, can not stress strongly enough that we will attempt to provide workshops for your teachers on whatever economic or financial literacy related topic(s) is/are of interest to you and them.

Therefore, if you have an idea or a need for workshops please contact us and we will try to accommodate your request(s).

We can also provide discounts on almost any and all economic and financial literacy materials for your district from the AP economics level to elementary.

Please see the National Council on Economic Education website http://www.ncee.net/ for examples, but we are, of course, not limited to those materials.

Your Dollar Your World

2008 Conference Kit

On February 5, 2008, Connecticut State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier, in collaboration with The Center for Economic Education, University of Connecticut and the Bank of America held a personal finance and economics conference for high school students, “Your Dollar, Your World” at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

This conference was designed to teach students about how the issues of climate change, human rights, and workplace protections affect businesses in a global economy and in turn, how students’ personal financial decisions to spend, save and invest can influence how businesses respond to these issues.

Click HERE for a Conference Kit

Congratulations to all those schools who competed in the 2008 CT Economics Challenge and especially Choate Academy for coming in 1st place and advancing to the Regional Competition. 

The CCEE wishes Choate the best of luck at regional competition.

Wilton High School Advances to National Competition

Four students from Wilton High School who competed in the 2007 Economics Challenge have advanced to the national competition May 21-23, 2007, in New York City.  The students began their quest by competing in the University of CT Center for Economic Education, CT Council on Economic Education (CCEE) – 2007 Connecticut Economic Challenge, an academic “super bowl” quiz event sponsored by the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the University of Connecticut Center for Economic Education, the Connecticut Council on Economic Education, and the National Council on Economic Education. Read more...

10 Tips to Make Your Children Money-wise

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage." -- Victor Kiam

Please read the article:

Connecticut's Shell Game: A Tortoise with Attitude

Individual articles as well entire issues of The Connecticut Economy are available at its website.

William T. Alpert
Director, Center for Economic Education and
Executive Director, CT Council on Education
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
1 University Place
Stamford, CT 06901
203.251.8413
203.384.0564 (Fax)
alpert@uconn.edu

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