Record Spending, Record Failure: America's $1 Trillion Education Racket

By Carole Hornsby Haynes           September 10, 2026 

Results from the 2025 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) show American students are continuing to fall academically as the nation’s achievement gap widens.  The U.S. reading and math scores are at their lowest in nearly 25 years after a 14-point drop.Students ranked 27th in math and 13th in reading and science. 

Dolly Parton: The Remarkable Story of How One Person Transformed the Lives of Millions 

By Carole Hornsby Haynes            August 30, 2026 

The world has lost one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music, story teller, cultural icon, actress, businesswoman, and philanthropist. Dolly Parton died on August 26 at the age of 80. Born in grinding poverty with only a high school education, she inspired others with her music and unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. 

Texas to Stop Teaching Capitalism?

Texas parents have a new fight on their hands: keeping ‘anti-racism’ out of their children’s personal finance classes.

By Carole Hornsby Haynes      July 26 2026       American Thinker 

Resisting national standards, federal pressure, and outside influences, Texas historically has exercised its Constitutional right to determine what Texas students will learn. The State Board of Education (SBOE) has had control over the content suitability of both instructional materials and open education resources. 

With the legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 6 in 2011, control over content was stripped from the SBOE. Open to the whims of unelected and unaccountable publishers heavily influenced by national teachers’ unions, academic content was fused with Common Core, social justice, LGBT, Critical Race Theory, and wokeism. 

'Reparations Personal Finance' Fused with Critical Race Theory

The problem of poverty is not slavery.   It is the black culture with single-parent families.  It is the adoption of Democrat Party government programs that encourage dependency.

By Carole Hornsby Haynes         August 8, 2026          American Thinker 

Beginning with the 2026-2027 academic year, millions of K–12 students will have to complete a personal finance course to graduate from high school.  Thirty states are either phasing in the course requirement, or have already done so, and nine states require the content to be integrated into other courses.

Yet many students will learn far more than how to buy a car, shop for insurance, and manage their household budgets. In schools using the free open education resource, NextGen Personal Financial Literacy (NGPF), each year five million students in more than 150,000 classrooms in all 50 states will learn that they are victims of slavery that ended in 1865 – 161 years ago. They will learn how reparations “redress the harms of slavery and violence against Black Americans and other historically excluded communities.”

Islamization of Texas Rages On With New Mosque Coming to McKinney

Submission to Islam by Cowardly City Leaders

By Carole Hornsby Haynes       August 9, 2026 

In 1982 the Muslim Brotherhood issued a 12-point plan, “The Project,” that aims to spread Islam and Islamist influence in the West. The goal is to create self-sustaining parallel societies alongside our American society to serve as long term bases for the gradual implementation of Shariah and Islamic dominance.

Democratic Socialists Are Courting the Youth

How Do We Stop Them? 

By Carole Hornsby Haynes         July 22, 2026        American Thinker 

In recent years, America’s positive views about capitalism have declined and socialism have increased. The shift is especially pronounced among younger voters. A 2021 Gallup poll found that just 47% of American youth, aged 18 to 34, favored capitalism, down nearly 20 points from 10 years earlier. By 2025 support had plunged still further with only 39% favoring capitalism, according to the Harvard Youth Poll.