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Educating for Diversity and Recovery: CCNY’s School of Education Embraces Its Next 100 Years

As it celebrates its centennial, The City College of New York’s School of Education is engaged not just in educating young people but in constructing a more fair and just society. From the Spanish flu era to today’s COVID-19 pandemic, the School of Education has been preparing educators to teach and nurture an increasingly diverse and multilingual student body in urban schools. Hear from Interim Dean Edwin M. Lamboy and Professors of Education Beverly Falk and Catherine Franklin in conversation with CCNY President Vincent Boudreau about the School of Education’s mission, the disruptions and innovations of the past year and how, in teachers, hope is vested for the recovery of the youngest members of our society.

Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Edwin M. Lamboy, Interim Dean of CCNY’s School of Education; Beverly Falk, CCNY Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education; Catherine Franklin, CCNY Associate Professor of Childhood Education.
Recorded: March 19, 2021