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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela |
Identity Politics and the Reparations Debate
By Carole Hornsby Haynes September 30, 2022 Published by American Thinker
The summer royal tour of the Caribbean and the death of Queen Elizabeth have provoked debates about the participation of Britain in the transatlantic slave trade. Following the queen’s funeral on September 19, CNN host Don Lemon, in an interview with royal commentator Hilary Fordwich, suggested the United Kingdom should pay reparations for colonialism.
Why the Enemies of Western Civilization Hated Queen Elizabeth
By Carole Hornsby Haynes September 22, 2022 Published by American Thinker
I began watching the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II at 4:00 a.m. It was an event filled with emotion and so many traditions from Western Civilization over the centuries. It was also a poignant reminder that, with the death of the queen, we have lost one of our last connections to that great civilization that gave us law, order, general liberty, culture, and our Christian heritage.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Did Not End Slavery, Led to Cancel Culture and Black Lives Matter
By Carole Hornsby Haynes September 21, 2022
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed an executive order that led the way to cancel culture, Black Lives Matter and "white guilt." The order stated:
"That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...."
Critical Race Theory, LGBT Coming to Texas Classrooms
Texas Proposed Social Studies Curriculum Standards 2022
Reviewed by Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D.
The Social Studies Curriculum Standards K-12 are under review. The review committees have made massive changes including historical revisionism in their proposed standards.
Using the framework of Culturally Responsive Teaching, political lessons are being fused into the academic content throughout these standards.
Playing the Piano Makes Your Child Smarter and Mentally Healthier
By Carole Hornsby Haynes July 15, 2022
Trillions of taxpayers dollars have been spent on public education yet American workers are the least well educated in the industrialized world. Advocates for universal pre-K claim we can make kids smarter by sending them to structured classes almost before they’re potty trained. Decades of studies show otherwise. The mental health crisis among students continues to worsen despite the primary focus of public education on social and emotional earning.
Here’s a superior solution for developing cognitive skills and a healthy mental attitude: playing the piano.
How Democrat School Closings Can Wreck The Country
By Carole Hornsby Haynes September 17, 2022 Published by American Thinker
Democrats are in a panic after the September 1, 2022 report of student test scores which show that school closures during the pandemic wiped out 50 years of academic progress in America.
Parents Sue Tennessee Williamson County Schools Over Critical Race Theory
By Carole Hornsby Haynes July 26, 2022
For months the news media have been reporting stories about Critical Race Theory being taught in Tennessee's Williamson County schools with white hatred and white shame drilled so deeply that children are being turned against themselves, their parents, and grandparents.
This raised red flags because I was born and reared in Tennessee and have many family members living throughout the state. Several of them live in Williamson County, a Republican stronghold just south of Democrat-dominated Nashville, that is also home to country music stars including Luke Bryan, Dolly Parton, and the Judd family.
Overturning Roe v. Wade and the Return to Federalism
By Carole Hornsby Haynes July 7, 2022
Since the founding of our nation, and particularly with the event of the American Civil War, power has continued to shift away from the states and toward the national government, circumventing the Constitution for centralized control. Now there is a renewed federalism – in the U.S., this is the constitutional division of power between state governments and the federal government.
