All high school students, families and teachers across the country will have access to the free digital learning resource
Citadel and Citadel Securities, in collaboration with EVERFI, announced the nationwide expansion of the MarketWorks investment education program. Launched in 2018, MarketWorks is a free digital learning course that equips high school students with an understanding of how the financial markets work. Citadel and Citadel Securities worked with EVERFI to co-develop this curriculum, which is currently being used in high schools across the Chicago, Dallas and New York metro areas at no cost to schools or students. Now, as schools remain closed amid COVID-19, they are making this free digital learning resource available to all high school students, teachers and families across the country.
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Two-thirds of young adults lack basic knowledge about investing. MarketWorks takes students through a step-by-step learning curriculum that sets a foundation for building good financial health and capability. Through an engaging, interactive learning experience, students blend economic concepts with investing topics to learn how the government, corporations and individuals come together to participate in the financial marketplace. Modules are focused on financial markets and exchanges, the global economy, company financing from startup to IPO, and fundamentals of investing. The course concludes with an interactive investment portfolio simulation.
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More than 13,000 students have completed the MarketWorks course since the program launched in 2018, across 325 schools in Chicago, Dallas and New York. Students that complete the program demonstrate on average a 55 percent increase in assessment scores on key investing topics, and 56 percent more students reported feeling prepared to determine how current events will impact the markets and economy after taking the course.
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