Elevating Effective Practice
NEFE identifies, strengthens and amplifies high-quality financial education systems that demonstrably improve learners’ outcomes.
Initiatives:
- Accelerate the adoption and implementation of quality K-12 financial education graduation requirements.
- Define NEFE’s role in strengthening the qualified financial educator pipeline.
- Advance effective financial education across postsecondary environments, including higher education and early career pathways.
What gaps or opportunities are we addressing?
Initiative 1:
- Close the adoption gap among the 20 states (and the District of Columbia) that do not yet have requirements.
- Support the approximately 17 states that are in the process of implementing requirements.
- Help remaining states evaluate and strengthen policy design.
Initiative 2:
- Close the gap of approximately 30,000 trained teachers needed to support existing high school requirements.
- Address inconsistent training quality, limited access and fragmented delivery systems.
- Strengthen integration of evaluation within educator preparation.
Initiative 3:
- Address the lack of a holistic understanding of financial education in postsecondary and early-career settings.
How will we know we’re making progress?
Initiative 1:
- Increase the number of states that adopt financial education requirements.
- Develop tools to measure the quality of implementation.
- Expand state engagement in evaluation and continuous improvement.
Initiative 2:
- Increase the number of trained teachers.
- Improve the availability and use of data on the quality of training and outcomes.
Initiative 3:
- Strengthen recognition of NEFE as a leading authority in postsecondary financial education.
- Establish and implement a clear postsecondary policy agenda.
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