Happy New Year! Continuing the "Best of 2018" theme, I wanted to share with you the blog posts that engaged readers the most in 2018. To measure engagement I focused on two factors. I looked for pages that attracted hundreds of visitors and had the highest average time spent per page. Time spent on the page was a good indication that educators/students read the blog post in its entirety and engaged in the mini-activity described in it. For those new to NGPF, several of the posts below are "oldies but goodies." I hope they provide you with some ideas to start the New Year!

Behavioral Finance

• Classroom Experiment: The Ultimatum Game (Video)

Career

• Chart: What Percentage of Teens Have Summer Jobs? 
• Why Are Soft Skills So Important In The Workplace? 

• Question of the Day: What Is the Most Common Career Advice that Adults Give to Current High School Students?

College

• One Strategy to Keep College Costs Down: Graduate In 4 Years

Credit

• What's The Implied Interest Rate on Rent-To-Own Merchandise? 

Investing/Speculation

• What Is Bitcoin And How Does Cryptocurrency Work?: A Primer

Policy

• Wrong Question: Should College Students Be Required to Take A Personal Finance Course?  
• What Actions Are Countries Taking To Improve Financial Education? 

Sports Stars

• A Study in Contrasts: How Can One NBA Star Lose $110 Million While Another Earns Hundreds of Millions Post-NBA?

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Looking for more "Best Of..." posts? Be sure to check out:

• Best of 2018...NGPF Webinars

• Best Of 2018...NGPF Video Library

• Best of 2018...NGPF Podcasts

 If you haven't checked out our Teacher Toolkit, you should! It includes a Best of NGPF that you won't want to miss. 

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.