Tag: Seth Kershner
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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 ...
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Boots On The Ground
Patrick Elder and Seth Kershner - As military recruiters gain a foothold in Christian schools, grassroots activists across the nation are sounding the alarm. SUMMER IS THE season for high school ...
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Drones Are a Military Recruiting Issue
Seth Kershner - Over the past several years, activists have fought against the use of unmanned aircraft (commonly called “drones”) to carry out targeted killings in the war on terror. Anti-drone ...
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Henry Giroux | Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation
Henry Giroux - This article draws from a number of ideas in Henry A. Giroux's newest book, Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education. As universities turn toward corporate management models, they ...
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Education Alert: Military Teaches Our Kids
There’s a saying in the Army recruiting community: “First to contact, first to contract.” In the United States, you have to be at least 17 years old to enlist in the armed forces. But, according to ...
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Linchpin of Pentagon’s School-based Recruitment: Student Testing Program (ASVAB) Rife with Errors and Contradictions
Pat Elder - Student Privacy Compromised by Massive Program In late December, 2013 the Department of Defense released a database on the military’s controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high ...
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The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment
Seth Kershner - Over the past few years, my colleague Scott Harding and I have been chronicling the counter-recruitment movement from the perspective of activists. In this article, I’ll take a ...
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Henry Giroux on the Militarization of Public Pedagogy
by Seth Kershner - Critique is Not Enough As a counterpoint to the current hand-wringing over public education in the U.S., it may be helpful to remember that we will spend a comparatively small ...
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Navy Steals: The military's new interest in STEM education
Seth Kershner - Although women make up about half of the United States workforce, they represent just 24 percent of careers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). In ...