How smartphones can make students smarter in financial literacy and other important nonacademic skills | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Spend your days helping students find success in the classroom-to-career journey, and you are bound to confront a confounding irony. Students typically drop out of school because of difficulty with personal finances. Most are in good academic standing when they leave school. In other words, a nonacademic factor – financial stress – is heavily influencing academic outcomes."