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 grant Act entitled ‘ No Child Left Behind ’ Though seemingly commendable at first glance, it being designed to improve academic attainment in disadvantaged state- funded schools (Zgonjanin 2006 ), a c ...
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 o ...
Joyce Chu - When teachers are underpaid and schools are underserved, why do we pay veterans to encourage young students to join the military? On a Wednesday afternoon last month, a group of gray-hair ...
Rick Jahnkow - In May 2013 the Military Times newspapers carried an article titled, “Services Prepare for Scant Recruiting Year.” It began with the following sentence: Finding recruits to join the mi ...
Rick Jahnkow - It’s well established that many people who join the U.S. military do so because of their economic status. It could be that they do not see options for a civilian job that pays a livabl ...
Rick Jahnkow - Just about everyone views the National Rifle Association as the leading champion of gun culture in the United States. When there is a mass shooting — even one as outrageous as the atta ...
Rick Jahnkow - When the military comes to your local high school, you have a legal right to give students an opposing view. This has been the position taken by federal district courts in Florida, Pen ...
Rick Jahnkow - Students at Mission Bay High School in San Diego are now celebrating what amounts to a very rare organizing victory: the expulsion of a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps unit from ...
Rick Jahnkow - Counter-recruitment and school demilitarization work in the U.S. has gone through several cycles of expansion and contraction during the last few decades. The first expansion was durin ...
The National Network Opposing
the Militarization of youth (NNOMY)
San Diego Peace Campus
3850 Westgate Place
San Diego
California
92105
U.S.A.
+1 619 798 8335
Monday through Friday 10am till 5pm PST
Skype: nnomy.demilitarization