Stocks in the Future's mission is to enhance school performance through the teaching of financial life skills to middle school students needing motivation.
Principals select students whose attendance and school performance need improvement and designate teachers from varying disciplines
Classes meet once a week during the school day.
Given a scripted curriculum, teachers impart investment fundamentals that reinforce mathematics, reading and social studies skills.
Teaching tools are workbooks, textbooks, research and quizzes on the dedicated webpage.
Students record their weekly attendance and quarterly grades on the SIF website and check investments on personalized portfolio pages.
Perfect weekly school attendance and improvements in mathematics and reading grades enables students to “earn” SIF dollars used to purchase publicly-traded company stocks.
The potential earnings are $80 a year.
Investments accumulate during three years. When ‘graduating’ from middle school, students continue tracking their portfolios on-line and can make stock trades once a year.
When graduating from high school and turning eighteen, ownership of stock transfers to students’ names.
Stocks in the Future is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit organization.