Dow Jones and Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) today announced a partnership, supported by a grant from Dow Jones and the Dow Jones Foundation, to integrate award-winning journalism from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Barron's and MarketWatch into personal finance classrooms across the United States. The partnership will reach NGPF's network of more than 140,000 teachers and the 5 million students they serve each year.

This grant will fund content development, classroom resources, teacher professional learning and direct engagement between Dow Jones journalists and students. 

At the center of the partnership, launching in August 2026, Dow Jones content will be prominently featured on NGPF’s platform and curated for classroom use across ten core personal finance topics: Banking, Investing, Types of Credit, Managing Credit, Paying for College, Career, Insurance, Taxes, Budgeting and Consumer Skills.

Teachers will access article-based lesson guides, Data Crunch quantitative activities, video resources and classroom-ready interactive tools, all free of charge.

The partnership also expands NGPF's student and teacher programming by integrating current events into the curriculum and providing direct access to professional journalism.

Key initiatives include regularly featuring Dow Jones articles in NGPF's FinCap Friday series, hosted by Yanely Espinal, and launching a new speaker series that will bring reporters into classrooms through virtual sessions and school visits, to discuss consumer finance, investing and career trends.

This partnership will also enable 1,000 teachers to receive complimentary annual WSJ subscriptions, ensuring educators across the NGPF network have direct access to the journalism their students will be reading.

Brad Rolston, President, Dow Jones Foundation:

“The Dow Jones Foundation is committed to advancing financial literacy, education, and journalism, and this partnership brings those three priorities together in a powerful way. Financial literacy gives young people the confidence to understand the world around them and make informed decisions about their futures.  We’re proud to support NGPF and the teachers bringing  this instruction to students every day.”

Tim Ranzetta, Co-Founder and CEO, Next Gen Personal Finance:

“Personal finance teachers have been asking for two things for years: timely, relevant journalism their students will actually read, and direct access to the reporters writing it. This partnership delivers both. We are honored to work with Dow Jones and the Dow Jones Foundation to give 140,000 teachers the resources they need to prepare 5 million students for the financial decisions ahead of them.”

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About Dow Jones

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and Dow Jones Newswires. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Dow Jones Foundation

The Dow Jones Foundation supports organizations driving meaningful change in the communities we serve and around the world. Through grants focused on journalism and a free press, literacy and education, and combating human trafficking and modern slavery, the Foundation invests in work that expands opportunity, strengthens civic and economic life, and helps communities thrive. Its grantmaking prioritizes programs with lasting impact, national or global reach, and the potential to build deeper philanthropic partnerships that reflect Dow Jones’s values and global footprint. 

About Next Gen Personal Finance

Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) is a nonprofit on a mission to ensure all students graduate high school with the knowledge and skills to thrive in their financial lives. NGPF provides free, high-quality curriculum and professional development to more than 140,000 teachers reaching 5 million students across all 50 states. NGPF also partners directly with school districts to support the implementation of new personal finance course guarantees. Since its founding in 2014, NGPF has played a central role in the expansion of guaranteed personal finance courses in U.S. high schools, which now exist in 30 states, reaching more than 76% of students. Learn more at ngpf.org.

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