Fed Aims To Boost Students' Knowledge
If Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has his way, the nation's schoolchildren will soon be adding monetary policy to their courses on reading, writing and arithmetic.</br></br>The Fed yesterday unveiled a new Web site, www.federalreserveeducation.org, which is designed to teach how the central bank affects the economy through its conduct of monetary policy.</br></br>"The Federal Reserve has actively promoted economic education and better public understanding of the roles of the Federal Reserve for many years," Greenspan said in a statement announcing the new site.</br></br>"This Web site is intended to improve the information resources available to educators, students and others with an interest in the Federal Reserve and how it works," Greenspan said.</br></br>The site was to supplement high school and college economics and social studies classes. But Fed officials said it was also created with the hope that its format will be accessible for students of all ages.