This feature section of the Forum includes short articles on various aspects of the business education program. (JS)

The author states that business educators can make a concerted effort to fuse consumer and economic topics and applications into instructional programs. They can make available to students individualized instructional materials to be used on their own time to improve their personal business skills and consumer economics understanding. (CT)

Because of free enterprise projects developed by high school students, the students are more aware of the American economic system. They learned to work together to achieve goals and to solve problems by decision making. They also became better consumers and citizens. (CT)

Describes a study designed to provide an instrument to measure the amount of cognitive information which students have before and after receiving instruction in consumer education. (HD)

The same principles are involved in the successful management of business and household, and helping students to learn personal or home financial management is a step toward business management. The author outlines strategies in family financial planning, organizing, and directing, with applications to business, for a family financial management…

The author expresses the concerns of business educators about the image and status of basic business courses, stating that basic business teachers sense the possibility of losing business courses to other content areas but are not working to solve the problem. (MF)