There’s a New AP Business Course. College Board’s CEO Explains Why

Education Week recently interviewed College Board CEO David Coleman about the new AP Business with Personal Finance course launching this fall, and he highlighted the Council for Economic Education’s endorsement of the new offering.

The course, which merges entrepreneurship with financial capability, has been endorsed by CEE, which sets the national standards for personal finance education. It is designed to meet state requirements for a high school personal finance class.

“We built AP Business with Personal Finance to meet the same standard” of rigor as other AP courses, Coleman told Education Week’s Rick Hess. The course was designed by college business professors from MIT, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt.

Coleman said he wants the course to serve as “an invitation to first-time AP students and to schools that may not have offered a lot of AP options before.”

About the Council for Economic Education

The Council for Economic Education’s (CEE’s) mission is to equip K–12 students with the tools and knowledge of personal finance and economics so that they can make better decisions for themselves, their families and their communities. We carry out our mission in three ways. We advocate to require financial and economic education in every state. We provide training, tools and resources — online and live through over 180 affiliates nationwide — to more than 40,000 teachers annually, who in turn bring the highest quality economics and personal finance instruction to over 4 million students. We deepen knowledge and introduce high school students to critical career capabilities through our national competitions and Invest in Girls program. Learn more at CouncilForEconEd.org and on LinkedIn and on Facebook.

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