Teaching for the Future: Ep. 47: Let the Holiday Begin!

I was thinking about doing a holiday edition of Teaching For The Future and do a whole episode about holiday marketing and consumer spending. I found this article Teens and Holiday Spending from The Orlando Sentinel. It is an article about a survey done about teenage spending.

Junior Achievement, an business education nonprofit (check out the wikipedia entry) did a survey of 1,512 students between the ages of 13-19 and found that teens planed to spend 3% less this Holiday season then last year. I wanted to include this article because the research group stated that students would be spending more conservatively this year that in the past two years. I think that it is a great idea to spend less at Christmas, but I feel like a 3% drop rate would be bellow the margin of error. Well even small victories are victories.

Well I was interested in finding more about JA Worldwide and their take on business education programs. As a searched around the sight I could not actually find any lesson plans except for one, which turns out to be instructions on how to fill out their financial aid application. So I dug a little deeper and found that they did some scholarships for students who are interested in going into business.

I thought I would let Chris Penn from the Financial Aid Podcast know about the whole thing. I figured that it was either something shady or a great new scholarship for his show. He noted that they were underwritten by Nelnet and sent me this article. It turns out that Nelnet is under investigation by the federal government for using money that they received through a loop hole.

What did I learn from all of this? You'll have to listen to the show to find out!

Thanks to Jesse Thorn from The Sound of Young America for the great intro, thanks to Christian Long from Think:Lab for talking about my show,
thanks to Dan Flannery for the great music, thanks to Chris Penn from Financial Aid Podcast for help with the research, and thanks to Rocketboom for the LINK.

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