R&L Education
Pages: 236
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Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-1-60709-287-2 • Hardback • September 2009 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-1-60709-288-9 • Paperback • September 2009 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
978-1-60709-289-6 • eBook • September 2009 • $58.50 • (£45.00)
Keen J. Babbage has twenty-five years of experience as a teacher and administrator in middle school, high school, college, and graduate school. He is the author of author of numerous books including 911: The School Administrator's Guide to Crisis Management (1996), Extreme Teaching (2002), Results-Driven Teaching: Teach So Well That Every Student Learns (2006) and What Only Teachers Know About Education (2008).
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Second Edition
Chapter 2 How to Learn about Money
Chapter 3 Student Life Experience as a Powerful Classroom Resource
Chapter 4 How Student Life Experience Connects with What Students Need to Learn
Chapter 5 How to Fully Apply Student Life Experience to Achieve Mastery
Chapter 6 Student Conversations, Hobbies, Daily Lives: More Resources for Any Teacher who Listens and Notices
Chapter 7 A Day in the Economic Life of an Elementary School Student
Chapter 8 A Day in the Economic Life of a Middle School Student
Chapter 9 A Day in the Economic Life of a High School Student
Chapter 10 A Visit to a Middle School Extreme Economics Class
Chapter 11 Save, Save More, Keep Saving
In this thoughtful and practical update to Extreme Economics, Keen Babbage offers a crucial message of hope for teachers and families alike: All children can learn how to budget, save, and invest for the future through fun and meaningful activities that can be reinforced at home and school. 'Money management mastery is not magical or mysterious,' Babbage writes. Instilling financial sense in the next generation will depend on the willingness of today's generation to 'make the time' to teach children how to be smart about money.
— Holly Holland, author of Making Change and Whatever It Takes
Babbage's book is aimed at teachers and educators, but any parent or student would benefit from reading it. . . . The spend-for-today mentality has to stop. Schools and society have to address the problem, and Dr. Babbage has concrete ideas, exercises and plans that will help.
— Don McNay, syndicate financial columnist for Huffington Post and author of the best-selling book, “Wealth Without Wall Street"; Times-Tribune, October 20, 2009
Babbage has the right book at the right time. We are a point in history where mastery of personal finance will be the dividing line between rich and poor in the United States and play a key part in how the United States competes in a global economy.Based on research, testing and a lot of common sense, Dr. Babbage's book is an outstanding guide for students, teachers and parents. It is filled with wisdom but easy to read. I own a copy and highly recommend that you get one too....
— Don McNay, syndicated financial columnist, Huffington Post
Babbage has the right book at the right time. We are a point in history where mastery of personal finance will be the dividing line between rich and poor in the United States and play a key part in how the United States competes in a global economy. Based on research, testing and a lot of common sense, Dr. Babbage's book is an outstanding guide for students, teachers and parents. It is filled with wisdom but easy to read. I own a copy and highly recommend that you get one too.
— Don McNay, syndicated financial columnist, Huffington Post