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Christine Mulhern; Kate Kennedy; Zhan Okuda-Lim – RAND Corporation, 2024
More than half of U.S. states have enacted policies to expand financial literacy education in schools with kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) with the goal of improving students' financial literacy skills. Although financial literacy education can be key to building long-term financial capabilities and well-being, more information is needed on…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Change
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Christine Mulhern; Kate Kennedy; Zhan Okuda-Lim – RAND Corporation, 2024
RAND researchers conducted a study that aimed to fill the information gap on how to successfully implement a statewide financial education mandate by studying the implementation of Nevada's 2017 financial literacy education reform. The study focused on the reform enacted by the Nevada Legislature in 2017, Senate BillĀ 249, which required that…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Change
Center on Education Policy, 2009
This general achievement trends profile includes information that the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) obtained from states from fall 2008 through April 2009. Included herein are: (1) Bullet points summarizing key findings about achievement trends in that state at three performance…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Federal Legislation, Testing Programs, Academic Achievement
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Soule, Penelope P.; Sharp, Joyce – 1997
In the spring of 1996, the Nevada State Department of Education conducted its fourth biennial survey to assess drug and alcohol attitudes and use among students in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12. Issues of safety, violence, and school climate, as well as participation in school-based prevention programs, were also assessed. The survey results are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Children, Drinking