Visit any classroom and you will encounter students with a variety of goals, and not everyone approaches education with the same goal. For some students, school is a direct path to the real world. But many schools don't teach their students functional literacy or how to deal with the basic issues they will encounter in everyday life: preparing a resume, applying for a job, opening a bank account, getting out of debt, understanding credit, and more. These functional words are learned in context with manageable one-page activities.