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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.
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
Johnny Can’t Read: Blame Government Schools
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. Updated December 12, 2017 World Net Daily June 10, 2017
Despite billions of dollars being dumped into government schools, nearly 50 percent of Americans can barely read while some cannot read at all.
According to the Department of Justice, “The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence, and crime is welded to reading failure.” The statistics back up this claim: 85 percent of all juveniles who interface with the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate, and over 60 percent of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level. Two-thirds of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of the fourth grade will end up in jail or on welfare.
