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Mission

Stocks in the Future's mission is to enhance school performances through the teaching of financial life skills to middle school students needing motivation.

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Stock Selection
  • Coca-Cola Company
  • Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Site
  • NetFlix
  • Nutrisystem
  • Petsmart
  • Sirius Satellite Radio
  • Sony Corporation
  • Time-Warner
  • Walt Disney Company
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Participating Schools for 2011-12
  • Arlington Middle School - Baltimore City
  • The Barclay School - Baltimore City 
  • Fallstaff Middle School - Baltimore City 
  • Federal Hill Prep Middle- Baltimore City 
  • John Ruhrah Middle School - Baltimore City 
  • MD Academy of Tech & Health Sciences - Baltimore City
  • Mt. Royal Academy - Baltimore City
  • Thomas Jefferson Middle School - Baltimore City
  • Washington Jesuit Academy - Washington D.C. 
  • William C. March Middle - Baltimore City
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Student Earning Potential
How Do I Earn Stock? Total Possible Per Quarter Total Possible
Per Year
Perfect attendance including the SIF class earns $1 each week. $8 to $10 (depending on the number of weeks) $36
Perfect attendance for an entire quarter, earns $1 bonus. $1 $4
Improving your reading grade earns $2. $2 $8
Improving your math grade earns $2. $2 $8
Reading grade at A or A- earns $3 or $2 for a B+, B, or B-. $3 $12
Math grade at A or A- earns $3 or $2 for a B+, B, or B-. $3 $12
Total Possible Earnings = $80
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Results

  • SIF reverses 5th graders tendency for poor attendance
  • SIF middle school students attend school 10 days more than control groups
  • SIF seventh-graders scored 31% higher on the John Hopkins Short Achievement Test
  • SIF sixth-graders scored 18% higher on the Johns Hopkins Short Achievement Test  

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Board of Directors

Dean David Andrews, JHU School of Education

Mr. Jimmy Berg, Entrepreneur 

Honorary Board Member: Mr. Eddie Brown, Brown Capital Management

Ms. Pat Bernstein, Founder and Chair

Dr. Celso Brunetti, Commodity Futures Trading Comission

Ms. Shana Harris, Warschawski PR Agency

Mr. Ron Fairchild, Smarter Learning Group

Mr. Hersch Langenthal, ML3 Company

Ms. Jayne Miller, WBAL-TV 

Ms. Susan Schuster, Notre Dame University

Mr. Richard Talkin, Talkin & Oh LLP

Mr. Marc Terrill, The Associated 

 

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How-To's
  • Principals select students whose attendance and school performance need improvement and designate teachers from varying disciplines
  • Classes meet once a week during the school day.
  • Given a scripted curriculum, teachers impart investment fundamentals that reinforce mathematics, reading and social studies skills.
  • Teaching tools are workbooks, textbooks, research and quizzes on the dedicated webpage.
  • Students record their weekly attendance and quarterly grades on the SIF website and check investments on personalized portfolio pages.
  • Perfect weekly school attendance and improvements in mathematics and reading grades enables students to “earn” SIF dollars used to purchase publicly-traded company stocks.
  • The potential earnings are $80 a year.
  • Investments accumulate during three years. When ‘graduating’ from middle school, students continue tracking their portfolios on-line and can make stock trades once a year.
  • When graduating from high school and turning eighteen, ownership of stock transfers to students’ names.
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Contact Information
  • Office/Mailing Address: 2701 N. Charles Street, Suite 300, Baltimore, MD  21218
  • Main office: 410.516.6882
  • Fax: 410.516.8890
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