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Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate - February 20, 2004

Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period.

Focus on Economic Data: The October Inflation Rate - November 16, 2005

Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period.

Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate - September 18, 2002

The seasonally adjusted rate of change in the consumer price index during the month of August 2002 was 0.3 percent (an increase of three-tenths of one percent). The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the past twelve months was 1.8 percent. In August, the core consumer price index, which excludes energy and food prices, also increased by 0.3 percent.

Teaching Financial Crises

Teaching Financial Crises is an eight lesson resource that provides an organizing framework in which to contextualize all of the media attention that has been paid to the recent financial crisis, as well as put it in a historical context. The current events stories, opinion pieces, and other popular media pieces that are today in great supply have generally not connected to educational objectives, historical analysis, and economic processes and concepts that are used in the high school classroom. In Teaching Financial Crises, teachers will find a non-partisan and non-ideological resource to help them simplify and offer balanced perspectives on this challenging subject matter.

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Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics

Economics in Action combines 14 favorite CEE simulations, role-playing activities, group activities and classroom demonstrations in one volume.

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