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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela |
Do Democrats Really Hate Homeschoolers?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. December 30, 2017
When Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced an amendment to expand 529 college savings plans to include K-12 education, allowing parents to use these tax-advantage plans for private schools, religious schools, or even homeschools, the Democrats had a meltdown.
Senator Cruz responded in an interview with Todd Starnes that “democrats hate homeschoolers.”
Big Business Needs to Butt Out of American Classrooms
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. December 23, 2017
The fallout from Common Core continues as international and national tests report the falling scores of American students, highlighting the disastrous effect of business leaders dictating what and how students are taught.
Bill Gates, who devotes his time and vast fortune trying to change the world, used his Gates Foundation to help bankroll virtually every aspect of Common Core’s development, promotion, and implementation.
Executives at Exxon Mobil, GE, State Farm, Intel, and other corporations pushed to get the standards adopted and implemented.
INTERNATIONAL CONFIRMATION: America Is Dumbing Down Its Kids
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. December 17, 2017 Daily Caller
An international test has confirmed what American parents have been protesting for years about Common Core -- students are being dumbed down.
Big Government and Elites Love Datapalooza
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. October 9, 2017 Eagle Forum Report September 2017
Students can no longer attend public schools and expect to get a broad based academic education. Instead they are pawns of Big Government and Big Business.
For Big Government, public education is the preferred vehicle to implement a Soviet-style planned economy to replace capitalism and the fierce American individualism that we treasure. For Big Business, American K-12 is at least a $500 billion market, according to Rupert Murdoch of News Corp.
House Ed Committee Studies How Feds Can Avoid Being A Burden to Taxpayers -- Really?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. July 18, 2017
Maybe the message is getting through to Republican conservatives on Capitol Hill that government pre-K programs are a failure – no matter how much liberals lie about how government early childhood programs close the gap for poor children.
Is Ted Cruz’s Homeschool Provision Constitutional?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. December 13, 2017 World Net Daily
Americans sent a loud and clear message to Washington in 2016 -- cut the size of the federal government and get rid of the U.S. Department of Education.Parents across the nation are pressing for parental school choice so they can be in charge of where and how their children are educated – alternatives to federally funded and controlled public education.
However, Washington politicians continue to introduce legislation that has the potential to subject private and homeschools to federal intrusion. A voucher bill introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) last February would have allowed
Education Bureaucrats Fake Academic Achievement Results
By Carole Hornsby Haynes August 18, 2017 with Commentary by Bill Ames
Last year I wrote an article about how the education bureaucrats are shielding the truth from the American parents: children in government schools are skidding downhill in academic achievement. The national math scores of fourth and eight graders have dropped for the first time since the National Assessment of Educational Progress was administered in the early 1990s. Senior math scores declined also.
How Texas Could Give Teachers A Big Raise Without Costing Taxpayers Anything
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. July 14, 2017 Published by Dallas Morning News
On July 18th the Texas Legislature convenes for a special session to address 20 items, one of which is a $1000 pay raise for teachers.
Education spending represents a major chunk of each state’s budget, bloated with the usual unnecessary layers of government bureaucracy. In a 2012 Congressional testimony Neal McClusky with the CATO Institute stated, “Our public schools have been on a decades-long hiring binge with ultimately no gains to show for it.”
