The Recruitment Minefield. Bill Bigelow.
by Bigelow, Bill; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 32Family. Publisher: Rethinking Schools, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Advertising | Contracts | High school students | No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | Propaganda | Recruiting and enlistment | United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting | United States Army -- RecruitingDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Thanks to a provision in the No Child Left Behind legislation, military recruiters have easy access to high school students these days. In Portland [Oregon],...the school board in 1995 banned organizations that discriminate based on race, sex, or sexual orientation--including the U.S. military--from recruiting in the schools. NCLB overturned that ban, requiring that recruiters have 'the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post-secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students.' The law also requires high schools to provide the military access to students' names, addresses, and telephone numbers--unless a parent or student contacts the school to deny permission to release this information." (RETHINKING SCHOOLS) The author relates some of his students' experiences with military recruiters, examines some of the techniques used by the recruiters, and provides strategies to help students "critically evaluate the hard-sell and the lavish promises."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
Originally Published: The Recruitment Minefield, Spring 2005; pp. 42-48.
"Thanks to a provision in the No Child Left Behind legislation, military recruiters have easy access to high school students these days. In Portland [Oregon],...the school board in 1995 banned organizations that discriminate based on race, sex, or sexual orientation--including the U.S. military--from recruiting in the schools. NCLB overturned that ban, requiring that recruiters have 'the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post-secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students.' The law also requires high schools to provide the military access to students' names, addresses, and telephone numbers--unless a parent or student contacts the school to deny permission to release this information." (RETHINKING SCHOOLS) The author relates some of his students' experiences with military recruiters, examines some of the techniques used by the recruiters, and provides strategies to help students "critically evaluate the hard-sell and the lavish promises."
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