by System Administrator | Oct 31, 2024 | Democratic Values
A few months back, I was presenting to a local service club. The CPAC convention had just ended, and their opening speaker said, “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.” I consider myself non-partisan. I’m a registered independent....
by Michael Freedman | Oct 30, 2024 | Consumer Empowerment, The Public Square Academy
Community Engagement If you operate from the moral premise that government is bad, or “is the problem,” then you will work to defund it. You delay and obstruct, you sign a pledge to “shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” This impulse is...
by Michael Freedman | Oct 23, 2024 | The Public Square Academy, VLOG
The Educator’s Dilemma 54% of U.S. adults have a literacy rate below the sixth-grade level, and 21% are just plain illiterate. How does this happen? Furthermore, how do our schools justify graduating these kids? And how does a second-career high school English...
by Michael Freedman | Oct 16, 2024 | Consumer Empowerment, The Public Square Academy
With the proliferation of products and services and the magnificent rise in the global standard of living, it is easy to ‘give a pass’ to the organizations that are charging ahead, applying new technologies to add tremendous value. March 15th is World Consumer Rights...
by Michael Freedman | Oct 9, 2024 | The Public Square Academy, VLOG
How do other civilized countries see us? What do other countries do that we don’t? Education is free or heavily subsidized. And wouldn’t a broadly educated populace be good for us? We have the highest cost and worst outcomes in health care, since we have...
by Michael Freedman | Oct 2, 2024 | Healthy Economy, The Public Square Academy
Let’s take it as a given that a Democracy requires a conscious and intentional effort to keep it running at its best possible state. We are in an era where — for better and for worse — passions are inflamed, and positions are hardened. In the essay “Revitalizing Civic...
by Michael Freedman | Sep 25, 2024 | The Public Square Academy, VLOG
Groups Our main goal is to support our members in becoming more informed and engaged in their personal, economic and civic lives. However, we seek to raise the power of the individual and society. The problems, as we see it are that individuals are increasingly...
by Michael Freedman | Sep 18, 2024 | Democratic Values, The Public Square Academy
Our current political polarization is highlighting the lack of civic education in our schools and in our communities. In fact, Fourteen students in a Rhode Island lawsuit say the state provided such a substandard civic education that it “violates their rights under...
by Michael Freedman | Sep 11, 2024 | Democratic Values, The Public Square Academy, VLOG
Our government is by, for and of the people. We, that’s you and me, are the government. If we let troublemakers bring us down, we bring down democracy. The debate should never be about big government or small government. It should be about effective government....
by Michael Freedman | Sep 4, 2024 | Learning & Growth, The Public Square Academy
It is common knowledge that the state of online education, to put it nicely, is in pretty poor shape. Most folks know that an online class is a lonely, boring experience — not much better than reading a book. We know that dropout and incompletion rates are...
