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Dr. Jaime Velazquez (left), Executive Director of CMEEF and Dr. Roberto Escalante (right), Director of the Center for Economic Education at Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, visited with Dr. Barry Chiswick (Center) and Dr. Helen Roberts (back to camera) at the UIC Center for Economic Education. |
International partnerships expand! 
Economic Education reaches across the borderThe Illinois Council on Economic Education hosted two guests from the newly formed Mexican Council on Economic and Financial Education for three days in April. MCEEF Executive Director Jaime Velazquez and Dr. Roberto Escalante from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico (which will host the first Center for Economic Education in Mexico) came to meet with ICEE Board members, Illinois education leaders, and members of the ICEE staff to learn about board structure, program initiatives and fund raising strategies as they initiate the work of their new Council. The Mexican Council was formally established in February 2007 as a result of the work of the National Council on Economic Education EconomicsInternational programs. These programs are part of the Cooperative Education Exchange Program (CEEP) funded by the U.S. Department of Education in cooperation with the Department of State. ICEE and several of its affiliated Centers have been actively involved in the NCEE EconomicsInternational programs for many years through a variety of activities, including its International Classroom Partnerships with schools in Romania; leadership of study tours to other countries; and hosting guests here. Many Illinois teachers have benefited from participation in study tours, the Training-of-Writers program, and the classroom partnership program. |
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