Word: ariel
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...promising example of new thinking is found on Chicago's South Side. At the Ariel Community Academy, financial education starts in kindergarten with books like A Chair for My Mother (the moral: if you want to buy something, save money first) and quickly becomes hands-on. Each entering class at Ariel - a K-8 public school that has partnered with a local money-management firm since the mid-1990s - is entrusted with a $20,000 investment portfolio, and by seventh grade, kids are deciding what to buy and sell (profits help pay for college). Last year, for the first time...