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Central Bank and the Eastern Kentucky University Center for Economic Education are pleased to announce that the winner of the sixth annual Learning for Life Teaching Award is Mrs. Jana Mayer, social studies and extended learning teacher at Model Laboratory School.

On September 16, 1975, the Center for Economic Education was established in cooperation with the Department of Secondary and Higher Education in the College of Education. The Center has been providing valuable material and training opportunities to public schools for 43 years.  

This recent story in the Berea Citizen highlights an economics and math lesson taught at Shannon Johnson Elementary School by Olivia Bivins, a former student in both Dr. Cynthia Harter's Introductory Economics class and Dr. Krista Althauser's Elementary Methods class in which Ms. Cindy West presented a session on teaching economics in the elementary classroom.  Ms.

The EKU Department of Government and Economics is pleased to announce that the 2016 winners of the Kyle J. Thacker Memorial Scholarship are Jessica Casebolt and Lauren Rose. They are pictured here with Keith Thacker (Kyle’s brother) and Loretta Kleckner (Keith and Kyle’s mother).