Our Vision

Students leaving school prepared for their economic roles as workers, consumers, citizens, and lifelong decision makers in a globally interdependent world.

Our Mission

To help teachers teach those students in the public and independent schools of Georgia.

Helping teachers teach economics

Thank you for visiting the Georgia Council on Economic Education's Web site.  We're working hard to be the resource of choice for K-12 social studies and economics teachers across the Peach State.  Here you can review programs, register for workshops, order teaching materials, or connect to GCEE's ECONBLOG.

Stock Market Game winners converge on Atlanta

More than 600 students, teachers, and a few parents from over 60 school systems around Georgia attended the 32nd Annual Stock Market Game Awards Luncheon at the Georgia Freight Depot on May 1.  Georgia State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge was the featured speaker.  He stressed the importance of finishing school, telling the students they had to graduate from high school to be successful.  

Stock Market Game winners

Parkview High School has done it again!  Gwinnett County's economics powerhouse is the statewide winner for a record ninth time.  Mark Leviton, the teacher who guided the Parkview team to the No. 1 ranking, has now tied Barry Murray of Mt. Paran Christian School as the teacher with the most statewide winning teams in Georgia Stock Market Game history.  The competition was close right up to the end.  A mere $47 separated the first-place Parkview team from Beth Milller's second-place statewide winners at Jackson Road Elementary School in Spalding County.  Rounding out the top three statewide teams was Matthew Graham's team at Long Cane Middle School in Troup County.  The rankings for winning teams from each school system and independent school region have been finalized and teachers are being notified now.                 

A Georgia first: two InvestWrite winners ranked in top ten

For the first time, Georgia has two students who finished in the top ten in the national rankings of the InvestWrite essay competition.  Monica McDermott's student, Jackson Brantley, a seventh grader at Oglethorpe Charter School in Savannah, finished in fourth place in the sixth- to eighth-grade division.  In Jennifer Duvall's class at Early College Academy of Columbus, Kareema Bedell finished in ninth place in the ninth- to twelfth-grade division.  You can read about it here.  Congratulations InvestWrite winners!

Georgia's Economic History: Kia plant tour in West Point

A group of Fayette County teachers toured the Kia plant in West Point as part of a Georgia Economic History workshop.  Read about the special edition of this workshop for 8th grade teachers here.   

GCEE presents Georgia School Superintendent with workshops research study

GCEE Executive Director Dr. David Martin presented State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge with a research report during a mid-October meeting that shows students whose teachers take a GCEE workshop do better on the state-mandated economics End of Course Test (EOCT) than students of teachers without the in-service training.  Led by Dr. John Swinton, Director of the Center for Economic Education at Georgia College and State University, a team of researchers examined approximately 180,000 test scores over three years, measuring the impact of GCEE programming in terms of changes in student test scores on the EOCT.  The researchers found that students of teachers who attended GCEE workshops performed significantly higher statistically on the EOCT than students whose teachers had never attended a GCEE workshop.  Researchers also found that the more workshops teachers attended, the better their students performed on the EOCT.  Click here to read the report.