The Great Depression parallels of today?

The Introduction to Business students just completed a unit from the St Louis Federal Reserve about The Great Depression economic lessons, in September 2012.  These included topics such as the Federal Reserve as out Central Bank, Monetary Policy, Inflation & Deflation, the Money Supply, Unemployment, GDP and other topics.  These were discussed in correlation to how they effect the economy and how the government can influence these factors.  All 18 students took a pretest and then completed a post test on each of the six sections with the scores increasing an average of 32% on the post tests.  This is the first time Mr. Kuhlers has used these specific materials in his class and plans to use them again next year with a few modifications.  The information is located at http://bts.stlouisfed.org.