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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As I was grading my student’s web pages today, one student’s goals struck me. She said she wanted to earn money, save it, and “create generational wealth.” This eighth grader has been taught financial skills at home, but not all students are so fortunate.

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Can start-up companies profit off one of the lowest paid professions: home-based child care?

The Hechinger Report

Most of that cash — $20 million — came from Andreessen Horowitz, the influential venture capitalist firm co-founded by Marc Andreessen, the creator of Netscape and an early investor in tech successes including Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb. $20 To meet that goal they’d have to launch 100,000 new businesses per year from now until 2029.

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