PCEE is proud to partner with the leading economic education champions below.
The Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE) is one of the leading organizations in Indiana promoting economic and financial literacy. The ICEE is located within Purdue's Department of Agricultural Economics. The ICEE was established in 1954 and has a national reputation for excellence and leadership in K-12 economic education. Its programs are disseminated through a network of university centers of economic education. Both the ICEE and the university centers are affiliated with the national Council for Economic Education.
ICEE sponsors a wide variety of K-12 economic and financial literacy programs, including the Indiana Stock Market Program, the Economics Challenge, Econ Camp, Kidsecon Posters, the Economics Poster Contest, and the Classroom Mini-Economy.
Most ICEE programs provide professional development to K-12 teachers. This focus on educators leverages economics and financial education because a trained and enthused teacher has a positive impact on new groups of students year after year.
The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is a leading organization in the United States seeking to improve the economic and financial literacy of K-12 students. The primary strategy used by CEE is the professional development of teachers and the development of high quality curriculum materials. Based in New York, the CEE is the umbrella organization of a network of more than 240 state and university affiliates. The CEE hosts the National Economics Challenge. Find information on the Indiana Economics Challenge.
Established in 1885, the American Economic Association (AEA) is a non-profit, non-partisan, scholarly association dedicated to the discussion and publication of economics research. Once composed primarily of college and university professors in economics, the AEA now attracts members from academe, business, government, and consulting groups within diverse disciplines. All are professionals or graduate-level students dedicated to economics research and teaching.
The Committee on Economic Education is a standing committee of the AEA that has been in existence in one form or another since 1955. The mission of the committee is to improve the quality of economics education at all levels: pre-college, college, adult, and general education.
The National Association of Economics Educators (NAEE) is a non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing economic and financial literacy by serving educators. Among its many activities, NAEE hosts conferences and professional development programs and provides economic and financial literacy programs for teachers, promotes high-quality teaching materials, and provides a forum for sharing best teaching and management practices.
The Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE) is home to select faculty who use empirical microeconometric methods in their research, and students trained in these methods. The center's affiliates create and share data-driven insights into how laws, regulations and government programs affect the market economy and the well-being of individuals and society. PURCE and PCEE work closely together.
Our center and its history reside in the Economics Department at Purdue. PCEE has a deep tradition of mutually beneficial research, teaching, and engagement with the department. Economics faculty members are leaders in their respective fields. The department houses the Vernon Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory, named after Nobel Laureate and former Purdue professor Vernon Smith, a pioneer in experimental economics, and the Center for Behavioral Economics, Experiments and Public Policy, which makes fundamental research contributions in the emerging field of behavioral and experimental economics.
The Purdue Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) offers learning programs to prepare education professionals for positions in schools, higher education, and the workplace.
Undergraduate students may enroll in programs leading to teacher licensure in elementary education or social studies education. At the graduate level, students may pursue advanced degrees in education disciplines. C&I faculty conduct research linking theory to practice across a wide variety of educational contexts.
