'Hard Core Financial Education Boot Camp' provides new resource for teachers, other professionals
Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education recently launched the Hard Core Financial Education Boot Camp website that provides financial education subject matter training for teachers and other professionals who teach financial literacy and deliver financial education programs. The website is a repository of videotaped presentations from the Hard Core Financial Education Boot Camp program, which was held at the Rutgers YES Center in Newark, NJ, in July. Barbara O'Neill, extension specialist in financial resource management with Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, and colleagues felt that there was a real need for this training. "A study conducted in 2009 by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that many teachers who are expected to teach personal finance had never taken a formal college course and lacked knowledge and confidence to teach financial topics, especially insurance and investing," said O'Neill.