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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...