IMPROVING THE TEACHING OF ECONOMICS - ACHIEVEMENTS AND ASPIRATIONS
回顾了美国经济学会经济教育委员会自1950年代以来推动经济学教学改进的历史，包括1960年代的国家任务组、电视课程、教师研讨会等，并讨论了1970年代的新议程和项目，对关注经济学教育发展的学者有参考价值。
Apparently somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of all economists make a significant part of their living by teaching. Yet only a minuscule part of their professional training is focused on how to become a good teacher. It is not clear that our teaching performance is much better now than it was twenty-five or fifty years ago. The Committee on Economic Education (CEE) of the American Economic Association (AEA) has since the 1950's operated under a broad and challenging mandate-to help improve the teaching in college and university economics. The CEE played a major role in a big push to improve teaching at all levels during the 1960's. Activities included a National Task Force on Economic Education, comprised of six of the nation's most distinguished economists who were asked to suggest the economic essentials that each citizen-to-be should have in our democratic, largely market-directed economy; a year-long CBS and PBS economics course, including work for credit at many colleges and universities; a nationwide program of summer workshops for teachers; and a major push on research on the effectiveness of different kinds of teaching. Several of these projects were established on a continuing basis. Others served their purposes and faded away. Thus, the CEE of the 1970's inherited a large agenda of workin-progress. But much as the CEE of the 1950-60's accomplished, there was much more to be done to improve the teaching of economics at all levels, and, in 1973, Bach as out-going chairman spelled out a challenge, An Agenda for Improving the Teaching of Economics for the next decade. The new committee developed a wideranging program of continuing and new projects. The committee's activities have been project oriented. These projects, with approximately one million dollars of foundation grants over the decade, will be discussed here around three broad themes: training economic educators, developing economiceducation research, and establishment of the Journal of Economic Education (JEE). We then conclude with a description of a number of projects being considered now by the committee, and some which we as individuals would like to see seriously considered.