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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela |
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.
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
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.
Big Tech, Big Government to Create National Student Database?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. July 7, 2017 Daily Caller
We have national healthcare and national curriculum standards. If our Republican-led Congress has its way, we will soon have another unconstitutional national program – a federal student database.
For years those who want to establish social control have advocated for a centralized government database to track and link student data across agencies.
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.”
Texas STAAR Is A National Star!
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. July 5, 2017 Education Views
The Texas required standardized tests -- STAAR -- are vilified by parents and teachers alike who complain teachers are forced to teach to the test, using 25 percent -- 46 days -- of precious classroom time. But there is more to the story than that.
