Enhancing K-12 Financial Education: A Resource Guide for Policymakers

Integrating financial education throughout the K-12 experience represents a promising opportunity to reach consumers at a pivotal point in their development and their financial lives. This book provides a resource guide meant to help connect policymakers with tools, information, and insights to enhance K-12 financial education efforts. While the guide is targeted at policymakers, the guide was designed to benefit all members of the financial education community. The guides framework for advancing K-12 financial education has three main sections: laying the groundwork, building the initiative and extending the impact. A second chapter provides an overview of the financial decision-making context that consumers navigate, a review of existing efforts in the K-12 financial education field, and recommendations for advancing financial education in policy and practice.