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HAZELWOOD TEACHERS VENTURE OUT OF
CIASSROOM AND INTO THE ST, LOUIS FED

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FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jackie Himmelberg, 314-444-8311
FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 18, 1994
ST.

LOUIS

Dennis Moss

and Dennis

Bresnahan,

teachers

at

Hazelwood Central High School, traded in their pointers for pencils
on Nov. 7, 1994, to attend The ABCs of Global Trade, a free economic
education workshop hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St . Louis,
in conjunction with

the University of Missouri-St.

Louis

and

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

At the workshop, Moss and Bresnahan and more than 60 other Missouri
and Illinois high school teachers learned the issues behind free
trade and creative ways to explain them to their students.

The need for this type of economic education is clear.

A 1992

Gallop Poll on American Economic Literacy found that when American
high

school

seniors

were

asked

questions

about

economics, only 35 percent could give correct answers.


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Moreover, most respondents rated their knowledge of economics as
only fair or poor and overwhelmingly agreed that schools should
teach more about how the economy works.

This workshop is one in a series of instructional programs sponsored
by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

As part of its commitment

to

Fed provides

economic

education,

the

St.

Louis

educators,

students and the public with programs and materials on economic
issues and concepts, as well as the role of the Federal Reserve
System.

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has branches in Little Rock,
Louisville and Memphis.

It serves the Eighth Federal Reserve

District, which includes all of Arkansas, eastern Missouri, western
Kentucky and Tennessee, southern Indiana and Illinois, and northern
Mississippi.


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