Coop LWV Hosts Talk on Need for Civics Education

COOPERSTOWN—On Thursday evening, November 6 at 5:30 p.m., the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area welcomes Lindsey Cormack, PhD, author of “How to Raise a Citizen (And why it’s up to you to do it)”. Cormack will discuss the importance of civics and how to help young people understand, appreciate, and participate in the democratic process at Cooperstown Coworks.

Cormack discovered in her research that the numbers don’t lie. Studies continue to reveal how little Americans know about their government. Civics instruction receives the lowest number of K-12 classroom hours out of any subject.

Her recent book provides parents, grandparents, caregivers, and educators with an engaging and practical guide to becoming better civic role models by showing how to have conversations about the important functions of government, citizen participation, and political issues with children of all ages—even in these polarizing times.

Cormack is associate professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
The following nonprofit organizations are co-sponsoring the event in support of a civics education: Community Foundation of Otsego County, Connections at Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Cooperstown PTA, Friends of the Village Library, NAACP, Otsego 2000 and Rotary Club of Cooperstown.

The book talk will be held at Cooperstown Coworks, 6 Doubleday Court, in Cooperstown. The talk is free and open to the public. The Green Toad Bookstore will have copies of Cormack’s book available for purchase at the talk.

For further information, contact Martha Membrino at (202) 271-7619 or martha.membrino@gmail.com.