A lot has changed since I was in high school. Thirty-six states in the US now require a personal finance class to graduate, though only 21 of them require a stand-alone class.My home state of ...

When people lament the state of financial education in America, they aren’t complaining about these kids. More than 120 high-schoolers competed in the National Personal Finance Challenge in ...

LinkedIn (LNKD) will open its professional social networking site to college-minded high school students. It also lowered the minimum age limit for U.S. users to 14 from 18, and to 13 in most ...

That’s bad for anyone, but it can be especially bad for high schoolers: “Colleges are complaining that kids are disengaged, they’re dropping out, taking a long time to graduate.