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Vol. 20, No. 1
September 2006

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 News from the Center for Economic Education
at James Madison University

Stover Presents New Materials on Risk
Lynne F. Stover, teacher consultant in the JMU Center for Economic Education, presented the new Risky Business curriculum for teaching high school students about managing risk to a national audience of career educators in July. Stover presented the curriculum to JAG: Jobs for America’s Graduates in Atlanta.

Risky Business is a set of four video segments with interactive lessons on DVD. The video segments feature NBC’s Al Roker as narrator and interviews with Olympic athletes, ordinary students and economic educators.

The Risky Business lessons were co-authored by JMU’s Dr. William Wood and Dr. Mark Schug of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. National distribution of the Risky Business materials is set for this fall. Funding for development and distribution was provided by the Allstate Foundation.
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