The article was written to provide the classroom teacher of business and economics with information that complements the investment unit, but is not found in most textbooks. The brief history gives an overview of American investing from 1790 to the present. (Author/AJ)

To give students the necessary basic economic concepts in the general business course, Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley, New York, expanded the curriculum to offer seven quarter-courses in economics, the court system, principles of banking and insurance, consumer education, the working citizen, and business management. (MF)

Career and business education should include instruction in economic awareness, with cooperating teachers from other disciplines offering courses or conducting workshops in economic concepts. The author suggests class activities and a cooperative economic awareness and occupational knowledge guidance program for business students. (MF)

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)

Suggestions are offered to distributive education teachers on how to effectively teach economic principles and concepts at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Suggestions are discussed in relation to three major challenges faced by the teacher: Developing appropriate instructional goals or objectives, organizing the subject matter content, and…

Reports findings from a study conducted at Richfield (Minnesota) Senior High School conducted to determine whether or not there are differences in personal economic understanding between secondary students who have completed a basic business course and those who have not. It appears that some economics course is needed to increase the level of…

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)

Summaries of forty-eight business education research studies completed in 1977 (all but one a doctoral or independent study) are compiled for twenty-two subject areas. Although the quantity is small, these summaries should present a normal picture of the nature and scope of research in business education in 1977. (MF)