Suggests that cost-benefit analysis of economic education can be valid if objectives are separated from standards of performance and if the analysis is made in terms of feasible alternatives. Content of economic education is discussed in terms of Richard McKenzie's article "Where is the Economics in Economic Education?" (JEE Fall 1977). (Author/DB)

Asserts that most research into the effects of high school economics curriculum upon performance in college level economics courses fails to consider that secondary economics education rarely teaches micro- and macroeconomic concepts. Discovers that any gap in learning between students in economics is narrowed by the first semester in college.…