Dr. Melanie Marks was a guest recently on the statewide National Public Radio program "With Good Reason"

Dr. Melanie Marks, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education, was a guest recently on the statewide National Public Radio program With Good Reason. In the segment “Chocolate Economics,” which aired March 1-7, Dr. Marks, who has written a textbook with that title for second- and third-graders, discussed the growing concern over financial literacy in the United States as well as innovative approaches to teaching this important material in the elementary school classroom.