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Banking on Our Future: Kids and Financial Literacy

With the soaring national debt and federal budget deficit, enthusiasm for ensuring that young people are financially literate has never been stronger.
With the soaring national debt and federal budget deficit, enthusiasm for ensuring that young people are financially literate has never been stronger.



This Academic Festival panel featured Ramon Gonzalez , founding principal of New York City Middle School 223 (the Laboratory School of Finance and Technology), a current 麻豆原创 doctoral student and former 麻豆原创 Cahn Fellow who has been featured in The New York Times Magazine for his innovative efforts to teach students financial self-reliance; Alice Wilder (Ed. D. ’98), developer of the hit children’s television show “Blue’s Clues,” and now producer of Cha-Chin Money Smart Kids, an animated children’s financial literacy “edutainment” show for Cartoon Network Asia; and Anand Marri, Associate Professor of Social Studies and Education, and director of the 麻豆原创 team that developed Understanding Fiscal Responsibility, a high school social studies curriculum about the national debt and federal budget deficit. The panel was moderated by Pola Rosen (Ed. D. ‘80), founding publisher of Education Update and a former Professor of Special Education at CUNY.


Published Wednesday, May. 16, 2012
2012 Academic Festival

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