Extreme Economics: Teaching Children and Teenagers About Money

Full of activities, sample quizzes, charts and case studies, this is a practical guide for both teachers and parents in instructing students about economic principles and personal finance. Student life experience is used, both as a resource for things to consider and a context in which skills can be learned. The author has substantial experience teaching and has written four previous books on aspects of education, as well as the first edition of this one, published in 2007. Nevertheless, the text seems disorganized and the author mixes personal opinions in freely--such as when he spends twelve pages talking about federal deficit spending and the recession of 2008. Contains no subject index or bibliography. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Keen J. Babbage has twenty-five years of experience as a teacher and administrator in middle school, high school, college, and graduate school. He is the author of author of numerous books including 911: The School Administrator's Guide to Crisis Management (1996), Extreme Teaching (2002), Results-Driven Teaching: Teach So Well That Every Student Learns (2006) and What Only Teachers Know About Education (2008).