Curriculum Guides

Personal financial literacy is a life skill — to create and manage budgets, to understand credit and debit, to invest in education and training, and to interpret the daily news. Post reporters, columnists and bloggers provide readers a wide range of financial, technology, business and economic information to inform their financial decision-making. 

Each Sunday The Washington Post Magazine informs, entertains and provides new perspectives and approaches to better living. This may be found in solitary activities such as reading the columns, absorbing features and doing the crossword puzzle. Or in shared experiences such as laughing with Gene Weingarten, trying a recipe or going out to a recommended restaurant or event. Whether tied to a news peg or an evergreen theme, the content excels in strong human interest.

As Grant and Lee raise their hats to each other, the war is over and reunification has begun. The last of The Washington Post's Civil War supplements reports on the final engagements and reflects on war's impact on our present. Students are asked to map troop movement, report on the last year of war, and consider the conflicting loyalties in D.C. that result in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Public transportation ranks high on the list of priorities for local, state and national leaders.  We begin with the decision to walk, bike, drive or take mass transit. Then through Post news, opinion, photography and informational graphics, we engage students in discussion, debate, and research of gas taxes, infrastructure management, congestion abatement, environmental impact and safe travel now and in their future.