Overview:
In this lesson, students think about how to best manage student and credit card loans while in college. Students are broken up into five or six small groups and are each given a sample student. Equipped with several pieces of information about each sample student, they are asked to design a loan and repayment strategy through four years of college.
Knowledge@Wharton High School Articles:
- “Zina Kumok’s Guide to Smart Student-loan Liftoff”
- “When It Comes to Student Loans, It Pays to Finish Your Degree”
- “Two Young Women Share their Struggles and Successes with Student Loan Debt”
- “Three Financial Priorities to Get You Ready for College”
- “The Rising Costs of a U.S. College Education”
- “The Paycheck Breakdown: What You Earn Is Not What You Keep”
- “The Fed Revealed: The Dangers of Monetary Policy”
- “The College Investment: Will It Pay Off?”
- “Smart College Decisions Sometimes Require Sacrifice”
- “Preparing Students for the Hard Reality of Post-college Debt”
- “Paying for College: Why the Money Issue Is a ‘Big, Big Deal’”
- “One House, Three Seniors and Lots of College Essays”
- “Olivia Mitchell on Why Young Consumers Should Just Say No to Spending”
- “Kiva: Improving People’s Lives One Small Loan at a Time”
- “International Student Athletes Learn How to Compete at U.S. Colleges”
- “Educator Toolkit: Paying for College”
- “College Students Going Hungry? Sara Goldrick-Rab Shares This and Other Campus Realities”
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