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SUMMARY:HOW TO RAISE A CITIZEN (AND WHY IT'S UP TO YOU TO DO IT)
DESCRIPTION:The numbers don’t lie. American civic knowledge is alarmingly low\, and many people dread talking about politics—often choosing to avoid the subject altogether. Studies continue to reveal how little Americans know about their government. Young voters are the least likely to be registered to vote\, and the least likely to turn out. Civics instruction receives the lowest number of K-12 classroom hours out of any subject\, and it shows – AP US Government & Politics has one of the lowest average scores each year out of all AP classes offered in high schools. But Lindsey Cormack\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology\, argues that all is not lost for the next generation of Americans. \nIn her new book\, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It)\, Cormack shows how engaging with children about our political system at a young age can help to better prepare them to engage with and understand politics and be catalysts for change. She argues that we all bear a little responsibility for our children’s lack of understanding about these subjects; our political system is a complicated one to understand\, our society has an aversion to talking about politics\, and our schools are stretched. \nCormack will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens\, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health\, and creative director for Parent Nation\, an initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW\, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years\, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of How to Raise a Citizen from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cormack and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. AND: FAN will gift a second copy of the book to After-Hours guests! Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel..
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/how-to-raise-a-citizen-and-why-its-up-to-you-to-do-it/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:GATHER ME: MEMOIR IN PRAISE OF THE BOOKS THAT SAVED ME
DESCRIPTION:For Glory Edim\, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim\, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents\, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty\, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back. \nEdim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child\, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape\, a safe space\, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community\, and as she grew older\, she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could\, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane\, Edim found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni\, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou\, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison\, while attending Morrison’s alma mater\, Howard University; Audre Lorde\, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak\, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers\, to trust her feelings when her father remarried\, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories. \nEdim’s new book\, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me\, is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery. \nEdim will be in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore\, an award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Gather Me to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me\, man. The pieces I am\, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”—Toni Morrison\, Beloved \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/gather-me-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me/
LOCATION:On Zoom
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