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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela |
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.
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.
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.
Lincoln Was As Guilty As King George III
By Carole Hornsby Haynes July 6, 2022
July 4th is supposed to be a celebration of the principles in the Declaration of Independence and our secession from the British Empire. Yet every one of its main principles were repudiated by Lincoln with his words and, and more importantly, his actions. Contrary to revisionist history, Lincoln was as guilty as King George III of committing atrocities against Americans. In his commentary, “Lincoln’s Repudiation of the Declaration of Independence,” Thomas Di Lorenzo shows the similarity of the “train of abuses” by King George III with those numerous abuses of Lincoln.
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.
