<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/summer-2015/learning-economics-and-helping-kids.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Learning Economics and Helping Kids</title><excerpt>As a young teacher, Jamie DeVries ’95 faced an unwelcome challenge: teach AP Economics at San Marcos High School. “I wondered how I could engage students in a dry, one-dimensional subject,” he says. “I knew I had to make dramatic changes to keep from being bored myself.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_900w/public/WMG_0899-505x337.jpg" alt="Jamie DeVries"/>
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