Eliot Snider Papers

              The National Center
of Economic Education
for Children
Lesley College, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
UPDATE
No. 3
February, 1982
Annual
Meeting
Agenda
Center
Director
Announced
Key
Project
Begun
The host for the 1982 National Advisory Board Annual
Meeting will be BankAmerica. The meeting will be held at
the headquarters in San Francisco on February 18, 1982,
preceded by a dinner meeting at the Fairmont Hotel on the
previous evening.
During the morning sessions of the business meeting the
past year's performance will be reviewed in terms of budget
and financial outcomes as well as results of programs to
date. A discussion of ongoing programs by The National
Center's newly appointed senior consultant and three
regional consultants will follow.
At the luncheon, attended by officers of BankAmerica and
the head of the Economic Literacy Council of California,
The National Center's major new project funded by BankAmerica
will be discussed in detail.
The afternoon session will include discussions of major
new programs to be begun this year and conclude with reports
on programmatic and Foundation budgets.
After a careful screening of credentials and personal
interviews with selected candidates, a process requiring
three months, the next director of The National Center has
been selected. A well-known and respected leader in economic
education, he will be announced to the Advisory Board at the
San Francisco meeting,
A pivotal new program starting this year is the California
Project. With the support of the BankAmerica Foundation,
The National Center will develop economic teaching materials
for incorporation into California's existing elementary
school curricula in the language arts and mathematics.
The project, which is expected to continue over several
years, will also include devising methods for improving the
delivery system for teaching economics using state-of-the-art
learning theory. The National Center will also construct
innovative strategies for actively involving publics other
than students and teachers in economic education programs.
This program, being developed for the State of California
with the cooperation of the Economic Literacy Council of
California, will serve as a model for eventual inclusion in
the elementary curricula throughout the country. Thus, with
the completion of the California Project, The National Center
will be on dead center toward the accomplishment of its
major goal — the inclusion of economics in elementary
classrooms of America.