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Jump$tart Coalition
First convened in December, 1995, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy determined that the average student who graduates from high school lacks basic skills in the management of personal financial affairs. Many are unable to balance a checkbook and most simply have no insight into the basic survival principles involved with earning, spending, saving and investing.
Many young people fail in the management of their first consumer credit experience, establish bad financial management habits, and stumble through their lives learning by trial and error. The Coalition´s direct objective is to encourage curriculum enrichment to ensure that basic personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational experience. The wheels of education do not need to be reinvented, they simply require balance.
2006 Financial Literacy Month a Success
2006 Survey Results, Day on the Hill
The Jump$tart Coalition held a press conference at the Federal Reserve Board on April 5, 2006 to announce the results of its 2006 Survey of Financial Literacy Among High School Students. A copy of the entire survey along with the data can be found in the Downloads section of this website (Click here to view). A copy of the survey press release, along with the survey itself, is contained here within the Electronic Press Kit. (Click here to view). The electronic press kit also contains the press release for Financial Literacy Day on the Hill and copies of the House and Senate Resolutions designating April as Financial Literacy Month.
Members of the media with questions pertaining to the Electronic Press Kit should contact Steve Hines at [email protected].
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| Jump$tart has created a special page for members of its national Board of Directors. If you are a member of the board and would like to see an archive of past e-mail messages and a schedule of upcoming meetings (and other ongoing communications), please CLICK HERE.
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Jump$tart's aim is to identify high-quality personal finance materials for educational use. The Clearinghouse is a database of personal finance resources available from a variety of education providers such as government, business and non-profit organizations. Once you find a material of interest, you can order it directly from the source. Many of the materials are low cost or free of charge. Teachers often use these personal finance teaching materials to support their state's standards in economics, business, math and family and consumer science.
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2006 State Coalitions Teacher Training Sessions
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Jump$tart Coalition - 2007 Meeting Schedule
First Quarter Board Meeting
Board Dinner, Thursday January 25
Board Meeting, Friday, January 26
Second Quarter Board, Partner, State Leader and Committee Meetings
State Leader and Committee Meetings, Wednesday, April 18
General Meeting, Board and Partner Meetings, Thursday, April 19
Jump$tart Special Event Fundraising Dinner
Wednesday, April 18, Site-Renaissance Washington DC, Hotel
Financial Literacy Day on Capitol Hill
To be determined.
Third Quarter Board Meeting
Board Dinner, Thursday July 12
Board Meeting, Friday, July 13
Fourth Quarter Board, Partner, and Committee Meetings
Committee Meetings; Networking Reception, Thursday, October 18
General Meeting, Board and Partner Meetings, Friday, October 19
- All meetings will be held in the Washington, DC area. Precise locations will be announced prior to each meeting.
- Partners with meeting space in the greater Washington, DC area are invited/encouraged to donate their meeting space and be recognized for their in-kind contribution.
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Imagine - half a million students engaged in collaboration and self-discovery learning about the nation's financial system�.
A Real Life Curriculum-The Stock Market GameTM
Instructors use the Stock Market Game's (SMG) focused lesson plans, enrichment activities and vocabulary to teach core competencies,
in math, economics, social studies, language arts, critical thinking skills and teamwork; meanwhile, students learn about saving and investing. Here's how:
Step One - Students start with $100,000 of virtual cash. Teachers use online curriculum correlated to national standards to teach about long-term savings and investing.
Step Two - Working in teams, students research and evaluate companies and decide how to invest their cash together.
Step Three - Students follow the news and learn how current events can shape the economy. Plus, they learn math as they calculate changes in their stock prices
Step Four - Students purchase and sell stocks online as they develop an understanding of what makes companies succeed.
Step Five - Our national essay contest, InvestWrite, builds a bridge between classroom learning and real-world investment decisions. National winners and their teachers win prizes such as a trip to DisneyWorld or New York, and a lap top computer. For more information visit www.investwrite.info
Even if you've
never bought a stock, the SMG provides you with all the resources and information you need. And your students will absorbcore curriculum knowledge along the way.
To learn more about SMG, visit www.stockmarketgame.org and choose the "How to Register" tab to view information about your local Stock Market Game program.
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Sorry, our supply of 2006 12 Principles Calendars is completely out of stock.
Please watch this spot to order the 2007 edition.
Coming Soon!
The Jump$tart Coalition� has developed twelve personal finance principles for young people. These principles are practical, everyday ideas that could make a real difference in young financial lives-if followed. Start today!
To see the list of 12 principles, click here.
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Jump$tart has received a number of questions about a Woman's Day magazine article from May 2005, which reportedly directs readers to the Jump$tart website for help in buying stocks or opening investment accounts for kids. This information is incorrect. Jump$tart is a financial education organization and does not provide these services. We are sorry; the writer was misinformed.
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Financial Literacy:
Are We Improving?
The Results of the 2004 National Jump$tart Coalition� Survey has sold out and are NO longer available.
For the first time since the Jump$tart Coalition� began to measure the financial literacy of high school seniors in 1997, average scores have stopped falling and appear to have turned around. Lewis Mandell, Ph.D., professor of Finance and Managerial Economics, SUNY Buffalo, and author of this important new book, believes that the turnaround is not only meaningful but also sustainable.
In his preface to the 2004 edition, Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) added:
My colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives will continue to study such findings and understand how we can assist in improving financial literacy in this country, such as by bringing greater visibility to the problems at hand and need for financial education through the designation of Financial Literacy Month in April. It is also my hope that the Excellence in Economic Education Act that I worked to include in the No Child Left Behind Act and first funded in FY 2004 can continue to bring resources to bear on efforts at the local, state and national levels.
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The Coalition produces a quarterly newsletter called the "Jump$tart Update" designed to keep educators informed about personal finance education tools and concepts, sample lesson plans, upcoming events and the activities of the Coalition and member organizations.
Receive a sample copy of the newsletter by calling (202) 466-8604.
Order online by clicking here. |
The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
919 18th Street, N.W. Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (888) 45-EDUCATE
Fax: (202) 223-0321
Email: [email protected]
Copyright � 1997-2006 The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. All rights reserved.
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