Articles
-
Draft Registration and the Selective Service System
Draft registration is one of the ways that all young men (and possibly soon young women as well) have to interact with the military and think about their relationship to military “service”. Almost ...
-
Education Action: Reining in Military Recruiting
Seth Kershner - In 2012, Kate Connell—a photographer with two children in the Santa Barbara public schools—learned that her son’s freshman seminar had a Marine recruiter as a guest speaker. Her son ...
-
How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools
David Swanson - U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, ...
-
Why Is My Kindergartner Being Groomed for the Military at School?
Sarah Grey, Truthout | Report When he got home from Iraq, Hart Viges began sorting through his boyhood toys, looking for some he could pass on to his new baby nephew. He found a stash of G.I. Joes - ...
-
SkoolLive - School Jive - A new, interactive digital invasion of our high schools by corporations and the military
Pat Elder - For years DOD recruiting commanders have attempted to circumvent student privacy protections that are designed to shield minors from the wholesale transfer of student information from ...
-
Debate: Military recruiting in public schools
Should the military be allowed to recruit in public schoolsWith the USA and its allies involved in 2 major conflicts in recent years, military recruitment has become an important issue. But some ...
-
Do Military Recruiters Belong in Schools?
By Seth Kershner & Scott Harding - The United States stands alone among Western nations in allowing military recruiters to work inside its educational system. Section 9528 of the 2001 No Child Left ...
-
America’s Tween Soldiers
Seth Kershner - Last year, Henry F. Moss Middle School in Bowling Green, Ohio, offered students a brand new course. And, as a headline in the local newspaper proclaimed, this was “not your ...
-
Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools
Scott Harding, Seth Kershner - ISBN 9781137515254 Publication Date September 2015 Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF) Publisher Palgrave Macmillan "This book brilliantly dissects not only the ...
-
SPECIAL REPORT U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ARE INCREASINGLY DIVIDED
Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But their son refused his parents' pleas to try ...