I get these students with no economics background at all, and by the end of the semester, I see a big change in their abilities. They soak everything up, and understand how business works, how the government works, and how economics [in general] works.

This is why my center trains teachers. I believe all students should take at least one course of economics in their lives, and that all high schools should have an economics program.

I have taught economics in that program to similar students for the past five years, and [at the center] I teach high school teachers how to teach economics to high school students. Many are from minority, immigrant backgrounds, and it's very useful to have this skill.

History has always come to me easily, but economics and accounting were real challenges. Students identify more easily with instructors who can tell them of their own struggles .

The Fed Challenge is a great way for students to learn about monetary economics outside of a classroom.

I personally thought when we started this research that these sponsorships were being driven by ego rather than economics.