• Big Ten extends invitation to 88 more universities, colleges and trade schools in hopes of forming the Big Ten Squared Conference.
  • I thought Strasburg was making his MLB debut tonight. This is an AAAA game.
  • One of the side-effects of growing up watching Doogie Howser is that I now must watch anything with Neil Patrick Harris - even if its Glee.

Personal Finance Lesson: Investing in Stocks

In this post, I thought I would offer a few of the PowerPoint slides I use to lead classroom discussions on stocks, as well as a few of the worksheets I use

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Economics Lesson Plan: Lego Assembly Line Activity

Unless you are teaching an AP Economics class, you probably aren’t going to get a lot of students to read Adam Smith.

Thankfully, there are ways that you can introduce some of the important concepts from Classical Economics without going right to the source.

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Study: U.S. Suffering from Immigrant Brain Drain

It was a good arrangement while it lasted. For the past twenty years aspiring scientists, engineers and managers from around the world migrated to the United States in hopes of building lucrative careers. The immigrants, largely from India and Asia, reaped the benefits that go along with prestigious, high-paying jobs while the U.S. furthered its [...]

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2009 Lilly Foundation Teacher Creativity Fellowship

If you were a kid growing up in New York City during the 1950’s, and you were a baseball fan, you did not have to look too far for a baseball idol. Between Willie (Mays), Mickey (Mantle) and The Duke (Snider) you had it made. As a baseball fan growing up in rural Southern Indiana [...]

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