I’d expect it varies a lot by state and school and changes by decade. But I was curious to hear some personal experiences of economics in American primary and secondary education!
I’d expect it varies a lot by state and school and changes by decade. But I was curious to hear some personal experiences of economics in American primary and secondary education!
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It’s only touched on briefly in primary school. My daughters had a 1 week lesson on the basics of supply and demand in 4th grade. There is a more thorough course that lasts a whole semester of economics in high school that gets in on things like GDP, interest rates, and the Federal Reserve in high school.
There’s very little economics overall in K through 12 education and it only really comes up as it relates to history. My school did have one and I took it. It was very basic economics and was an elective.
A standalone economics class is usually not encountered until college/university. Even then you may never take an econ class if that isn’t part of your major. I took two economics classes to fulfill my distribution requirements in college.
We didn’t have any economics class. But money and economy would have come up in places like math and social studies. Graduated in 2014
In college I was required to take macroeconomics.
There was an elective Economics/AP Economics course in high school which I found comparable to an intro course in college. But it wasn’t required and none of the other courses touched on economics.
It varies.
I had a one semester class in HS. None in primary at all. It was a combination personal finance/economics class with heavy emphasis on really basic personal finance. This is how you balance a checkbook, this is how you make a personal budget, this is the concept about how to file income taxes. A little bit of micro/macro. Intro to the concept of investments and retirement, and how the economy functions.
Lots of poorer schools likely have no economics classes, since they tend to cut everything that’s not a core requirement.
We did not have an economics class until the last year of high school, and it was only half a semester
You could take macroeconomics in person or microeconomics online. Most people did macroeconomics
I didn’t take any Econ courses until college
Economics doesn’t change.
The only thing that changes is whether people pay attention (and how much).