Articles
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The Securitized Student
Kenneth J. Saltman - Recently, critics of school commercialism such as Alex Molnar and the Commercialism in Education Research Unit that he directs as well as the U.S. Surgeon General have taken ...
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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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Sustainable Options for Youth: First Fall Visit to Austin High School
Jeff Webster and Susan Van Haitsma - Last week, we made our first SOY visit of the new school year to Austin High School. Tami and I were pleased to be joined by Ben, a Marine Corps veteran and ...
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Questioning the Ethics of Military Recruitment at Fordham
Nick Haggerty - Uncle Sam may or may not be watching you while you sleep I started receiving recruitment emails from a Marine captain with the clockwork regularity characteristic of the military in ...
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JROTC as a substitute for PE: really?
Monica A. F. Lounsbery, Kathryn A. Holt, Shannon A. Monnat, Thomas L. McKenzie, and Brian Funk - Physical inactivity is receiving growing attention given its documented relationship to a variety of ...
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Marquette and ROTC: an unholy alliance
Daniel C. Maguire - At Marquette University, there are two contradictory schools of thought on war and both are — confusingly — taught to our students. One is based on the Judeo-Christian, Catholic, ...
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Direct Action against Militarism
Owen Everett - Based on a piece by Cecil Arndt In different countries, war and militarisation take on very different meanings and have different effects, depending not only on the presence or ...
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Violence, USA
The Warfare State and the Hardening of Everyday Life Henry A. Giroux - Since 9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they ...
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The Militarization of Catholic Jesuit University Education
Robert Graf - Not Your (Grand) Father’s Military St. Ignatius surrenders his weapons St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, became a “soldier of Christ,” laying down his worldly ...
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Army Report Analyzes Decreasing Popularity of High School Military Testing
Paula Hoffman-Villanueva - We hear a great deal about the over-use of tests in schools, but one test that we all need to pay more attention to is the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude ...