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It’s that time of year -- the time to ring out the old and ring in the new, to ditch bad habits and replace them with good ones. The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy can’t guarantee you’ll lose weight, or become a better human being, but we can give you some suggestions to help you whip your finances into shape.


Agency: Securities and Exchange Commission


This report identifies patterns of investor behavior, including common investing mistakes, based on a comprehensive review of academic journal articles by the Library of Congress. Learn how to understand and avoid investing behaviors that can undermine investment performance, such as trading frequently, underdiversifying, and focusing on past performance.


Agency: Securities and Exchange Commission


Money Smart Train-the-Trainer Videos available in English and Spanish, are designed for those who are interested in teaching financial education to others.


Agency: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


Money Smart curriculum -- a comprehensive financial education curriculum designed to help individuals outside the financial mainstream develop financial skills and positive banking relationships.
The Money Smart Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) is a friendly and easy to  use  learning tool that teaches the 10 modules of the Money Smart curriculum through a computer.


Agency: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


This site includes basic information and resources that will help turn your students' dreams of college, trade or technical school into realities.  College.gov provides an overview of financial aid, kinds of aid available, help to find money and use it wisely and guidelines on applying for aid.


Agency: Department of Education


Your online source for federal student aid information to help students and parents plan and prepare for college, career and trade school. Learn how to answer students’ questions and get the word out about financial aid programs.


Agency: Department of Education


The Securities and Exchange Commission Graduate Program is an advanced teacher training program focused on the federal government¹s interaction with the financial markets. The training sessions, held in Washington, DC during the summer, feature lecture-discussion sessions, hands-on activities, and field trips.


Agency: Securities and Exchange Commission


The National Financial Capability Challenge is an awards program designed to increase the financial knowledge and capability of high school aged youth through an online exam.  It is designed to illustrate the relevance of financial topics to students, as well as to assess their learning, and challenges high school teachers and other educators to teach the basics of personal finance to their students. The Challenge also rewards students, educators, schools, and states for their participation and their success.

Audience: 
Youth and Educators

Agency: Department of the Treasury


The IRS partnered with education professionals to bring you the Understanding Taxes Teacher Site, an interactive tax education program for high school and community college classrooms.Understanding Taxes includes detailed lesson plans, activities, simulations, and resources for teachers and students in an online version. The Understanding Taxes Student Site also provides high schools, community colleges, and the general public with a technology-based instructional tool.


Agency: Department of the Treasury


Money Math: Lessons for Life is a four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes, teaching grade 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance. The 86-page book is a teacher's guide with lesson plans, reproducible activity pages, and teaching tips. A teacher needs only one copy of Money Math: Lessons for Life to teach several classes of students.

Audience: 
Teachers, students

Agency: Department of the Treasury


The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Financial Literacy Web Resource Directory provides information about financial literacy programs that banks might wish to become involved with as part of their CRA programs.  It includes descriptions and contact information for a sampling of organizations that have undertaken financial literacy initiatives as a primary mission, government programs, fact sheets, newsletters, conference materials, publications, and links to Web sites.

Audience: 
General Audience

Agency: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency


This program promotes economic and financial literacy among all students in kindergarten through grade 12 through the award of one grant to a national nonprofit education organization that has as its primary purpose the improvement of the quality of student understanding of personal finance and economics.

Audience: 
K-12 Educational orgnizations and Educators

Agency: Department of Education


What every kid, teen, parent and teacher should know about Social Security. This site provides materials for parents, children, young adults, and teachers to learn about Social Security and what it means for them.


Agency: Social Security Administration


The United States Mint provides free educational resources for educators, parents, and kids.  Educators can visit http://www.usmint.gov/educators to view free educational resources including class activities, lesson plans, and information on how to bring coins into the classroom.  The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change™ Web site for kids is dedicated to promoting lifelong pleasure in coins and coin collecting. Games, informational features, and interactive animated cartoons, successfully combine government, technology, and education in a new and exciting way.

Audience: 
Teachers, Youth, and Parents

Agency: Department of the Treasury


FedWorks is intended to promote economic literacy and greater understanding of the Federal Reserve. This file requires an Adobe Acrobat Reader.


Agency: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System


The form used by a consumer to file a complaint about a thrift or savings association.


Agency: Office of Thrift Supervision