Tag: Seth Kershner
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When Rural Schools Partner with Military Recruitment Programs, It’s Above All Pragmatic
February 1, 2024 / Janie Ekere / The Daily Yonder - Center for Rural Strategies - Activists remain concerned about the costs and ethics of school military recruitment, despite the potential educational and career opportunities it can offer, said Scott Harding and Seth Kershner, co-authors of “Contested Terrain: School Militarism and the Battle for Hearts and Minds.” But in response to funding ...
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Veterans Push Back Against Military Recruitment in Schools
The branches of the U.S. military have long seen high schools as optimal recruiting grounds. Some veterans are beginning to fight the propaganda and tell students the truth about military service. ...
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JROTC Is Preying on Poor Students
A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools. 01.08.2023 / Seth ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Seth Kershner’s ‘Breaking the War Habit’
A first of its kind, "Breaking the War Habit" — focuses on the historical and contemporary role of the military’s involvement in American education. October 3, 2022 / Maynard Seider / The Berkshire ...
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The US Military’s JROTC Program Is Even Worse Than You Thought
August 23 2022 / Steve Early / Suzanne Gordon / Jacobin - We’ve long known that the US armed forces target poor and working-class students to meet their enlistment goals. But according to a recent ...
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
Introduction December 2016 / Matthew F. Rech / School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University - On 8 January 2002 in the US, George Bush Jr. signed into law an educational federal ...
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Connecticut Peace Group Engages Students with a Peace Wheel
Peter G. Anderheggen | Originally published in Draft NOtices - August/September, 2017 Winsted Area Peace Action has been visiting high schools in northwestern Connecticut for at least ten years. The ...
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Research Allies
Dr. Lisa Marie Cacho Department of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1207 W. Oregon Street, M/C 136 Urbana, IL 61801 Telephone: (217)265-0338 Email: This email address ...
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Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now
Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - July 16, 2016 "Back when we started, recruiters were just blatantly lying to the kids," said Susan Quinlan, the co-founder and volunteer coordinator ...
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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 ...