Tag: asvab test
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Military Recruiters Should Have No Place in Our Schools
Federal legislation enforces the militarization of schools, giving recruiters easy access to teenagers vulnerable to persuasion. An outlier among other nations for this method of recruitment, the U.S. should end this harmful practice. June 22, 2022 / Alex Skopic / Current Affairs - Today’s conservatives, to hear them tell it, are deeply concerned with the safety of children in schools. After ...
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Military testing in the nation's high schools is a violation of student privacy
Pat Elder - During the last year or so about half of the states have enacted legislation aimed at protecting student privacy. Meanwhile, President Obama has called for a Student Data Privacy Act, ...
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A Military Whitewash Campaign
Pat Elder - The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy - A bill that would have protected the privacy of Connecticut's school children was recently defeated by the Democratically-controlled ...
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How the Military Collects Data on Millions of High School Students
Charles Davis/ Vice - The calls started when I was a junior in high school—always in the evening, always after The Simpsons and always with an older gentleman on the other end of the line. “Charles, ...
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Student Privacy and the Military in Connecticut: Don't Let SB 423 Die!
The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy - The military in Connecticut's General Assembly influence runs counter to the sensibilities and civil liberties of the citizens of the Constitution ...
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Statewide ASVAB Option 8 Bill SB 423, Advances in Connecticut
Pat Elder - We’re working with the ACLU of Connecticut to pass SB 423, a bill that would protect the privacy of high school students who take the ASVAB. On March 19, 2014, SB 423 passed the ...
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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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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 ...
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Students Complain to School Mandating Military Recruiters' Test
David Swanson - To: Sandy Husk Salem-Keizer Superintendent of Schools I would like to file a complaint about the manner in which my classmate and I were removed from what we were told was a ...
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