Venturing into what it said are more timely topics foreducators, FoolProof, the industry-backed financial literacyinitiative, has released 10 new online offerings for middleand high school educators.

The new topics, FoolProof said Wednesday, “include unusual topics forteenagers,” including gambling, charitable giving and bankruptcy,plus more conventional subjects such as investing and renting “yourfirst pad”

The topics are contained on www.foolproofteacher.com,one of the websites set up by the Melbourne Fla., firm.

FoolProof's founder, which has 15 sponsoring leagues and tradegroups and more than 145 credit union subscribers, said it waspursuing “a tough take” on these areas in response to inquiriesfrom the CUs and teachers who use to the financial literacyservice.

“These modules are different,” said the 31-year-oldfounder, Will de Hoo. “Each module is designed to be used byitself, rather than as part of our curriculum series. But all ofthe modules—used alone or with our other modules — are tough asnails — and teachers love them. We have tested these modulesin Oklahoma during the past six weeks, and already over 125high schools have started using them.”

FoolProof's materials, according to the company, are now inuse in 48 states and have been endorsed by both the ConsumerFederation of America and the National Association of ConsumerAdvocates.