USA Today noted that 27 states now have personal finance courses in high schools, compared to just 11 in 2021. Despite this rise in financial literacy courses, only 15% of respondents to an American ...

Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit, ...

April is National Financial Literacy Month. To mark the occasion, MarketWatch will publish a series of “Financial Fitness” articles to help readers improve their fiscal health, and offer advice on how ...

While there’s been a slight uptick in financial literacy among young people, Americans’ overall financial knowledge and understanding is still shy of what they need to get through life, according to ...

The latest numbers on financial literacy are out, and they aren't pretty. U.S. adults got just 49% of the questions right on this year's personal finance index test, according to the 2025 Personal ...

If you think you’ve mastered financial basics, you’re either overconfident or in the minority. A new report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center shows that the average American scored ...

The results of the first Junius Financial Literacy Competition have finally been announced. Nine students from grades 3 to 8 ...

For comparison, the nationwide average score for 15-18-year-olds – among the 52,572 total participants from this age group who have completed the test to date – is 64.04%. Thus Massachusetts teenagers ...

The Watchdog welcomes the news that a new state law creates a requirement for all Texas public school students to take a mandatory “financial literacy” class in high school. Maybe this happened to you ...

Financial education will become compulsory for all primary and secondary school pupils in England as part of an overhaul of the curriculum that aims to equip students with the skills needed to ...