Wall Street Journal Classroom Web site

Wall Street Journal Classroom Web site
The Wall Street Journal isn't known for being exactly "teen-friendly." Fortunately, the online version of its student edition, Wall Street Journal Classroom (http://wsjclassroom.com/current) is. The Web site features articles that show how the business world affects the daily lives of teenagers.
The articles you'll find at the Wall Street Journal Classroom site aren't the same ones your parents might read in the Wall Street Journal. The topics are limited to either issues teens care about or will encounter in their future. Articles are written with a student audience in mind, so they are lively and straightforward, not at all like the stodgy, dry stories one might associate with the site's parent company.
Updated monthly, Wall Street Journal Classroom covers a range of topics. For example, in the site's "Squaring Off" section, you'll find a debate on whether or not Congress should raise the minimum wage -- an issue that has a direct effect on many teens' cash flow. The site also features a college section that includes stories on finding financial aid and the dangers of credit card debt.
By using examples students regularly encounter, Wall Street Journal Classroom succeeds in making business and economic trends relevant to teens.
XEric Goodwin writes Hotlink for Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. You can send e-mail to egoodwin@krtinfo.com.
Notable quotes
"I don't like to explain my videos. I'm fine with leaving them up to viewers to interpret -- or misinterpret -- in all sorts of ways." -- Madonna, in InStyle magazine.
"It is hard enough growing up and being a teenager, but doing it in front of the whole world is bloody hard, too." -- Kelly Osbourne, in J-14 magazine.