Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 15, 1997 - Highlighting the importance of teaching and learning economics in elementary and secondary schools will be the focus of Economic Education Week in Nebraska Nov. 1-8.
Roger Atwood, president of the Nebraska Council on Economic Education, housed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Business Administration, said the council will be joined by Gov. Ben Nelson; Doug Christensen, commissioner for the Nebraska Department of Education; state Sen. Adyce Bohlke, chair of the legislature's Education Committee; Jack Swartz of the state Chamber of Commerce; state treasurer Dave Heineman; and Maxine Moul, director of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development. The council will coordinate a variety of activities during the week.
The council and its five centers at the Lincoln, Kearney and Omaha campuses of the University of Nebraska and Chadron State and Wayne State colleges will work with teachers to demonstrate methods to infuse economics across the curriculum. A special site on the World Wide Web has been developed that features lessons for teachers to use with their students. Teachers will be able to print copies of the lessons to use in their classrooms as well as learn of other web sites to help teach economics. The lessons are posted at http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu.
In addition, the 32 Nebraska Economics Fellows, classroom teachers who earned UNL master's degrees in economics through a special council program last year, will work with local teachers to emphasize the importance of economic literacy.
For further information on Economics Education Week, contact
the Nebraska Council on Economic Education, 339 College of
Business Administration, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-0404, telephone
(402) 472-2333 or e-mail vlinke@cbamail.unl.edu.
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