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Audio Resource: How Does Gen Z Think About Money And College?
Marketplace interviewed four college seniors who are older members of Generation Z (who were in middle school during the Great Recession) to get their perspectives on money, the economy and paying for...
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Survey: What Are Parental Beliefs About A College Education?
Survey from Discover had some interesting results. This might be a good way to get students to go home and ask their parents a similar set of questions that this survey contained. You could have...
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Survey: What Do Parents Think About Paying For College?
Survey from Discover had some interesting results. This might be a good way to get students to go home and ask their parents a similar set of questions that this survey contained. You could have...
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Top 10 NGPF Lessons For the 2014-15 School Year
With our first school year winding down (or already concluded), I wanted to highlight the most popular NGPF lessons, as measured by teacher views. As for patterns, the most popular lessons are drawn...
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Chart of the Day: How Much Student Debt Do College Graduates Have?
Take with a grain of salt as the data tracks students who began college in 2003 and tracked their debt levels six years later (from NY Times):
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Chart of the Day: Student Loan Growth
From the Economist: Questions for students: What is average student debt (see left hand axis) and %age of students who graduate with loan debt (right hand axis) in 2015? How would you describe the...
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Question: Why Does College Cost So Much?
Chart showing rate of increase of college tuition and fees vs. inflation measure (PCE Price Index); from Bloomberg: According to the Federal Reserve of New York in a recent research report: When...
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Question: Does a College Degree Pay Off?
Answer: It depends. From PBS NewsHour: Some useful nuggets from the video: 1/4 of colleges have a negative rate of return. In other words, the cost of the school outweighs the benefits (higher salary)...
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Question: What Should You Do Over The Summer?
With the calendar inching closer to August, which means back to school for many, it’s not too early to think about how your high school students should be spending their future summers. You might...
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Conversations To Have With Your Kids About Money: NGPF Featured in Recent...
Thanks to Megan Strand producer of “Life Hacks for Working Moms” for interviewing me for her recent podcast. Enjoy the 20 minute podcast here. Here are the details: Over the past several weeks, we’ve...
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