The publication represents the result of the Consumer Education Task Force's attempt to develop competencies applicable to a K-12 continuum. It has been designed to provide school district personnel with relevant data to support a comprehensive curriculum development effort; or to support a variety of alternative approaches at various grade…

This curriculum guide is intended to provide classroom teachers with an easily adaptable consumer education program that is appropriate for use with students in grades K-adult. In the first part of the guide, various consumer educational concepts are listed by grade and then by subject area. Discussed next are the suggested scope and sequence of…

The paper presents the text of a business and economics session at a conference on recent sociopolitical and socioeconomic developments in West Germany and the United States. Intended as a contribution to the dialogue between the two societies, the paper focuses on differences between average and sophisticated consumers within each country and…