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The IRS offers free curriculum kits for high school educators. The program is called Understanding Taxes and includes units on Your Role as a Taxpayer, Tax Forms, Fairness Issues, and the Impact of Taxes. To order, call your IRS Taxpayer Education Coordinator (TPEC). You can find a state by state list with addresses and phone numbers at the Teachers’ Toolkit at TAXi at www.irs.gov.

www.jumpstartcoalition.org The Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy seeks to improve the personal financial literacy of young adults. Its purpose is to evaluate the financial literacy of young adults; develop, disseminate, and encourage the use of guidelines for grades K-12; and promote the teaching of personal finance. Its Web site provides a searchable database of educational materials for the K-12 age group. (888) 45-EDUCATE.

Tax planning suggestions and guides from Ernst & Young can be found at www.ey.com and from H & R Block at www.hrblock.com.

www.ncfe.org is the Web site for the National Center for Financial Education. It is a consumer-oriented, nonprofit, public education organization that offers articles and worksheets on topics, such as spending perception and creating a spending plan.

Federal tax forms and tax tips can be found at www.1040.com and www.taxweb.com.

State tax information and forms are available at www.taxadmin.org.