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"Teaching Thrift: A Curriculum" Unit 6: Individual Thrift, Practicing and Preparing for Work
In Unit 6: Individual Thrift, Practicing and Preparing for Work, students will learn that planning for the future is essential to future success; research and information-gathering is as important to making decisions for the future as it is to academic work; and professionalism is a skill and requir...
"Teaching Thrift: A Curriculum" Unit 5: Generosity
In Unit 5: Generosity, students will gain the following enduring understandings: (1) Generosity is best applied as stewardship, conservation, and community investment; (2) Individual generosity engenders trust and responsibility; (3) Individual decisions can impact the local community, the national ...
"Teaching Thrift: A Curriculum" Unit 4: Frugality
The enduring understandings gained in Unit 4: Frugality are: (1) Many factors affect the availability of goods and services, (2) Needs and wants must be measured and evaluated according to available resources, (3) Individuals must consider many complex factors before making decisions about consumpti...
"Teaching Thrift: A Curriculum" Unit 3: What is Work Ethic?
In Unit 3. What Is Work Ethic?, the following enduring understandings will be gained: (1) the American work ethic has deep roots in European and U.S. history and culture; (2) planning and goal-setting are essential to pursuing a profitable, sustainable, and meaningful career; and (3) developing a wo...
"Teaching Thrift: A Curriculum" Unit 2: Anti-Thrift
The enduring understandings gained in Unit 2: Anti-Thrift, are (1) waste is the opposite of thrift and takes many forms; (2) There are many arguments against the practice of thrift; (3) arguments for and against the practice of thrift have historical roots; (4) women's political enfranchisement coin...
"Teaching Thrift: A Curriculum" Unit 1: Wise Use
In Unit 1: Wise Use, the following enduring impacts will be gained: (1) thrift is an ethic that functions in multiple manners on various levels of society; (2) thrift was practiced at many points in United States history; (3) thrift is an enduring ethic that can still play an important role in the l...
Thrift: A Timeless American Value
In a lecture sponsored by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Andrew L. Yarrow discusses the rise and fall of thrift in American culture. Yarrow is the author of "Thrift: The History of an American Cultural Movement," published in 2015 by the University of Massachusetts Press.
The Lost Virtue of Thrift
To live in working-class and lower-income America today is to be surrounded by the debt culture. Need money? Get "EZ Cash" from your friendly neighborhood payday lender "in minutes!" It was not always this way. The deep commitment to thrift that once characterized our society would strike many Ameri...
Ten Leaders: Allies and Strange Bedfellows
All About the Benjamins : Understanding the Values of Thrift
Generosity Unbound – with Claire Gaudiani
A Conversation with Claire Gaudiani, author of Generosity Unbound: How American Philanthropy Can Strengthen the Economy and Expand the Middle Class, and David Blankenhorn, President, IAV.