MISSION

The mission of CEEM is to assure that Maryland's school children leave high school equipped with the economic knowledge and decision-making skills they need to make informed, rational decisions as consumers, workers and citizens.  An understanding of basic economic principles  and our free enterprise system is vital to an individual's ability to be a responsible consumer, a productive worker, and an informed voter.  Considering both the short and long-term economic consequences of, for example, spending and saving decisions, how much education and training to invest in, what career to choose, and the positions of political candidates on critical issues, is something children must be taught how to do. 

OVERALL STRATEGY

The complexity of our economic world requires that education for economic literacy begin in the primary grades and continue throughout a child's school career (and, indeed, for as long as one lives).  The Council on Economic Education, therefore trains elementary secondary teachers and provides instructional materials to make economics an integral part of a child's learning experience from grade 1 to grade 12.  The CEEM staff helps school systems to develop social studies and business curricula with a strong economics dimension.

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