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Federalized School Choice? A High-Risk Choice
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. February 6, 2019
In his State of the Union speech, President Trump urged lawmakers to pass a school choice bill. Fortunately, it’s highly unlikely that any such legislation will be passed. The $1 billion competitive grant for vouchers that Trump favors and the federal tax credit scholarship, considered a federal power grab by conservatives, lack Congressional support.
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Harvard Study Proves Risks of 'Early Schooling'
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. January 7, 2019 World Net Daily
Whatever happened to childhood and the freedom to run, play, create, climb trees, drink out of garden hoses, play cowboys and Indians without being politically incorrect, take things apart to see how they work, and fantasize without being shamed by adults?
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Globalist Billionaire Betsy DeVos Thinks Adopting European Education Policies Can ‘Help Catch Us Up’
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. December 20, 2018
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos toured European countries earlier in 2018 and expressed great admiration for their centralized education system and workforce development, particularly those in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the U.K. She believes adoption of their policies will “help catch us up” to students in other countries.
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Corporate Takeover of American Classrooms
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. November 15, 2018 Excerpt from "The Consequences of Screen Technologies in Texas Education"
Rather than creating products that teachers need and want to use, Silicon Valley tech giants decide what they want to sell and then create a sales pitch such as “personalized learning” – code for computerized education that replaces teachers.
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Texas Classrooms Expose Young Children to Harm With Addictive Digital Screens
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. November 3, 2018 Excerpt from "The Harmful Consequences of Screen Technologies in Texas Education"
The TEA is pushing addictive video programs into grades pre-K through 8. Classroom technology not only leads to worse academic performance for kids, it can also clinically hurt them.
Two hundred peer-reviewed studies have connected screen time to increased ADHD, increased aggression, anxiety, screen addiction, depression, and even psychosis. Children under 10 are especially susceptible to screen addiction.
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Common Core, “Worst Large-Scale Education Failure in 40 Years,” Endangers Education Choice
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. November 23, 2018
In the more sane days gone by, children took a year-end achievement test for which there was no class preparation. Instead, the school year was spent mastering academic content, not constantly preparing for standardized tests. The achievement test score neither affected academic grades nor was used to determine whether the student passed for the year.
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Fed & EdTech Partnership Pushes Data Mining And Video Games Into Classrooms
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. November 14, 2018 Excerpt from "The Harmful Consequences of Screen Technologies in Texas Education"
The U.S. Department of Education has become increasingly aggressive in demanding more personal data on students for various federal grants.
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TEA Claims of ‘Dramatic Results’ For Online Math Video Games Are False, Says Expert
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. November 1, 2018 Excerpt from "The Harmful Consequences of Screen Technologies in Texas Education"
Despite the volumes of research about addictive video games, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is implementing math video games in district and open charter schools for grades pre-K through 8.