How to Teach Financial Literacy, & Why We Must

Mar 7, 2019

12:30pm – 1:30pm CT

Being able to manage your money—pay bills, make a budget, maintain good credit—is a critical life skill. Yet the vast majority of schools don't require financial literacy instruction, and even when they do teachers often don't feel qualified to teach it. What can be done to bring personal finance into the educational mainstream? This panel will talk about what works, what doesn't, and why we must do better.



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