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 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 | 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 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 | Aug 28, 2024 | The Public Square Academy, VLOG
The Public Square Academy invites you to consider becoming a member of our Learning and Action community. In the Academy of Access to the Democracy Challenge, of course, which helps you identify areas where you might find opportunities to support democracy in the...
