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Article: McKinney, Texas, Elementary School Joins Trend of Teaching the Stock Market.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- November 29, 2000
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Nov. 29--MCKINNEY, Texas--The bullish stock market might have turned your dentist into a day trader, and now it might turn your grade-schooler into a Wall Street whiz.
Due to the booming stock market and an increase in classroom Internet access, the number of students playing stock market simulations in schools has increased over the last decade, according to officials at Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education. Participation in the Stock Market Game, the largest educational stock market simulation supported by the nonprofit SIFEE, has grown from 400,000 students in 1990 to more than 600,000 today.
Silvia Barrett, a teacher of ...