Natalia Smirnova

Continuing AIER’s innovative approach to bridging the gap between students’ academic training and skills demanded in the workplace, we started a remote applied-economic-research course with Missouri University of Science and Technology last week.

As AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers program continues to impact teachers and students around the country, it is satisfying to realize that our approach follows the highest echelons of economic education.

AIER’s economics-across-the-curriculum approach is designed to encourage the infusion of economic concepts into various disciplines and across instructional levels. In 2017 our program attracted a diverse group of participants from middle school to college who are teaching a variety of subjects.      

AIER’s 2017 Summer Fellowship Program comes to a close today. As students are departing, we are reflecting on continued legacy of our founder, Col. E.C. Harwood, who advocated “efforts to promote independent scientific inquiry and education.”

Col. E.C. Harwood considered Educating the Educators project a way of fulfilling the educational aspects of AIER’s mission.

AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers program is at the vanguard in the current national movement to deliver economic knowledge to children not only across the curriculum, but also across education levels.

Carrying forward the legacy of E.C. Harwood, who encouraged exchange of ideas among economists and educators, I was glad to see that our Teach-the-Teachers curriculum generated a heated and intense debate.

AIER’s Summer Fellowship Program, started in 1946, continues to attract high-caliber students from prestigious colleges and universities across the United States.

The summer has started, so AIER is going on the road to provide a professional-development workshop for teachers in St. Louis, Miami, and Omaha.

Continuing the legacy of AIER’s founder, Col. E.C. Harwood, we are building collaborative partnerships with colleges and universities across the country.