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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela |
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.
Is There A Solution to the STAAR Problem?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. | January 26, 2017 Texas Insider
Recently Texas State Rep. Jason Isaac, vice chair of the Texas Conservative Coalition & State Representative from House Dist. 45, told Texas Insider Jim Cardle that teachers are spending 46 days of the school year preparing their students to take the STAAR test.
Common Core Math in Texas: Texas Math Scores Drop Worst in U.S., Says Expert
By Carole Hornsby Haynes Part 5 of the Series: “The results in Grade 8 are virtually catastrophic.” January 11, 2016 Texas Insider
During the 2012 Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) math curriculum standards review, Dr. James Milgram, a member of Common Core’s Validation Committee and the only content expert in mathematics for the standards, reviewed both the first and second Texas drafts. He publicly declared that the second draft showed every indication of being among the best, if not the best, state math standards in the country.
However, the final draft was dramatically altered in the final version that Milgram received from the TEA. A Common Core format had been added and pure math content reduced.
Big Government, Big Money Collude to Control Our Kids
By Dr. Carole Hornsby Haynes | August 7, 2014 WND
This fall 450,000 of the nation’s top students will study a radically different narrative of American history. The College Board, which administers Advanced Placement (AP) courses and tests, is rolling out a revised curriculum framework for AP U.S. History that paints America as an evil empire devoid of heroes.
NAEP To Psychologically Profile Students On 2017 Test
By Carole H. Haynes | July 14, 2016 Education Views
John Stuart Mill, called the “most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century," characterized government schools in his 1859 treatise On Liberty.
Crisis in American Public Education
By Dr. Carole Hornsby Haynes | February 19, 2010 Texas Insider
American schools are in serious trouble. Liberals, intellectual elitists, and teachers’ unions strongly resist any change from this dinosaur system to a free market driven system. In spite of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent each year on education, our public schools are graduating illiterates.
