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Practical Academics


For the Love of Truth
A Practical Academics Essay Something essential is breaking in our society. We used to share a love of Truth. We can feel it even when we can’t fully name it. Truth—once a shared reference point that allowed us to argue, deliberate, and move forward together—has become fragile, contested, and increasingly disposable. This is not just a political or media problem. It is an existential one. When a society can no longer agree on what is real, it loses the ability to govern itse
Michael Freedman
Mar 52 min read


From Content to Commitment: Designing Programs That Cultivate Engagement
Engagement doesn't come from information. It comes from participation, consequence, and reflection. Learn the four design principles that turn passive learners into active participants—and why that distinction matters more than ever.
Michael Freedman
Feb 43 min read


When College Became Job Training— and Why That Should Worry Us
For Educators & Edupreneurs Who Champion Interactive Adult Learning For most of American history, higher education was understood as more than preparation for a first job. Colleges existed to cultivate judgment, character, and civic capacity—to prepare people not only to work, but to lead, deliberate, and govern. Today, that understanding is quietly eroding. As college costs have risen faster than wages, families have understandably begun to treat degrees as financial investm
Michael Freedman
Jan 75 min read
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