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Penn partnership helps teach financial literacy at the Lea School

Jill Golub

The Daily Pennsylvanian

Monday, April 7, 2014

You wouldn’t think that global real estate funding and ways to assess and reduce financial risk would be taught in an elementary school cafeteria.

However, every Thursday night at the Lea School at 47th and Locust streets, a Wharton professor teaches these very tools and more to West Philadelphia adults.

The course on adult financial literacy taught by Professor of Strategic Management Keith Weigelt is a partnership between Weigelt, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships and Lea. It focuses on teaching adults the best ways to invest and manage their money.

Read more of this Daily Pennsylvanian article here