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| | BB&T Economic Educator of the Year Awards Honor Three N.C. High School Teachers |
 | | "When half of our high school students and one in four adults don't know what the stock market is, it's time for us to reevaluate how we teach economics to our children," said Barbara Duck, senior executive vice president at BB&T who attended the presentation. |
 | | Susan Stewart Taylor, a social studies teacher at Raleigh's Leesville Road High School, earned the top honor and a $5,000 cash award for her work in helping her Civics and Economics students learn and apply economic concepts to their daily lives. |
 | | Its mission is to insure that all students in North Carolina develop economic understanding and abilities to solve problems in their lives as consumers, savers, investors, employees, employers, citizens and participants in a global economy. |
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