Teacher education in economics is essential if high school students are to have an opportunity to learn economics. Teachers need to develop a solid understanding of economics through course work because students cannot be expected to learn what teachers do not know. In face, research in economics education at the high school level has found that the number of economics courses taken by teachers has a positive and consistently significant effect on the economic learning of students.
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