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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 America is educating a nation of investors Encouraged by research, more states are requiring schools to teach personal finance.   The Economist School of stocks 20 June, 2024 | 663 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ How is the stockmarket looking today?” asks Jennifer Varga, a teacher at Memorial Middle School in Willingboro, New Jersey, a suburb about 20 miles outside Philadelphia. She has projected a live visualisation of S 500 companies sorted by market cap onto the board at the front of her classroom. It is a sea of mostly red boxes. A 14-year-old pupil quickly answers: “Trash!” She is not wrong—it was a rubbish morning for the index on June 11th. Ms Varga adjusts the picture to show the S ’s rise over the past month, then the past six months. The pupils nod approvingly at the sea of green boxes as Ms Varga explains the virtues of investing long-term. Personal-finance courses that teach pupils best practices for managing ………………………………