also lets students become comfortable in the active learning environment and experience multiple roles. The basic setup … includes three markets: labor, food and non-food. Students run the entire economy, from hiring their classmates to producing … goods and buying them. Students also elect a class congress, which allows them to experience government intervention in the …

students internalize the economic way of thinking and learn to exercise active citizenry. After experimenting with a variety of … methods, we have concluded that requiring students to write an op-ed is the most conducive to the achievement of this goal …

to develop each student’s ability to think clearly about public policy issues. This involves aligning their views …