Two bespectacled sixth-grade boys from Merrill and a pair of curly-haired sixth-grade girls from Weeks eyed each other warily. Everyone was dressed to impress. Everyone was nervous. None of them had ever been in this situation before. What …

High school economics isn’t just theoretical micro and macro principles anymore. Embedded in the curriculum is an element of financial literacy; practical stuff that everybody should know to enable informed, intelligent decision-making about personal things like credit scores …