More than 300,000 kids are taking classes about money for the first time

Flickr/Carissa Rogers Pam Whalley and her husband were enjoying a night out at Applebee's not too long ago when she noticed a group of high school students having an odd conversation. Listening closer, she couldn't believe the things they were saying. "I heard one of them say, 'No, it's true. If you save $2,000 a year from the time you are 23 until you're 35, you will have more money at 65 than if you start saving $2,000 a year from 35 to 65,'" Whalley now recalls. "I was shocked." Only a month ...