NFTE supports Florida Department of Education to Introduce Entrepreneurship Major to High School Curriculum.
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In a move that reflects the ever-increasing importance of teaching entrepreneurship to high school students, the Florida Department of Education has introduced Entrepreneurship as a high school major course, to be taught at participating schools statewide. As part of the A++ Education Act signed by Gov. Jeb Bush in June 2006, students can sign up for the Entrepreneurship major starting in the 2007-2008 school year, which will become one of 442 majors offered under the Education Act.
Instrumental in the development of curriculum which may be used to implement the Entrepreneurship major is NFTE, (the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship) an organization committed to providing entrepreneurship education to low-income and minority youth.
‘With the implementation of the new majors next year, students should have greater motivation to stay in school,’ stated Alice Horn, Executive Director of NFTE South Florida. ‘In fact, through our program nationwide; we have witnessed a decrease in the high school drop-out rate, and an increase in college attendance. This has also been documented by the Harvard Graduate School of Education who conducted a multi-year study to investigate the NFTE program’s influence on school engagement.’ More.
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