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Military recruitment in schools, empowerment workshops, etc.
10/19/08 Junior ROTC in San Francisco public schools is a subject of intense public interest. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1016/p01s01-usgn.html
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Analysis & views: 8/16/06 Foreign ministers of several European nations are told that schools should make greater efforts against the "radicalizing" of Muslim students. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4799371.stm
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Analysis & views: 10/19/08 Junior ROTC in San Francisco public schools is a subject of intense public interest. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1016/p01s01-usgn.html 1/11/08 DHS hopes to "foster a Homeland Security culture within the academic community.": The effort to develop a university curriculum centered on national security issues is one part of a broad-ranging national security invasion of U.S. campuses which encompasses everything from arming campus police with Tasers and "conventional weapons" to electronic surveillance of student behavior to the repression of "anti-military protests" on campus: the rise of "Repress U." as this writer describes it. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174879 10/16/07 Chicago; "The most militarized school system in America..." Marine Corps to open a new public school, joining Army, Navy and Air Force in sponsoring schools and Junior ROTC programs. Critics say these schools and programs are motivated by the services' recruitment needs, targeted to enlistment of children in poor and black areas. http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/chicago1.htm 11/17/06 Home schoolers of America, Unite!---you have nothing to lose but evolutionism and gay marriage. Patrick Henry college in Virginia caters to home schoolers with a fundamentalist curriculum and even a record of placing graduates as White House interns; and the movement's aggressive assault against public education is beginning to attract the support of the Southern Baptist Convention. 9/29/06 California's statewide textbook adoption program (like those in Texas and Florida) is a happy hunting ground for special interests of all persuasions, including both Christian and Muslim fundamentalists, to have the narratives of their history "included" in school books. http://www.alternet.org/stories/42138/ 4/17/06 Johns Hopkins deal with a cosmetics company for large research grant highlights the increasing dependence of universities on such grants, with the decline of federal funding, raising questions about their research and the public interest: 4/14/06 Military recruiters kicked off campus of University of California Santa Cruz after counter-recruitment demonstrations by students: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1814636.php 4/1/06 With government funding of abstinence-only sex education at about $900 million per year, more schools are adopting that approach: 3/21/06 In their "assault on higher education," right wing critics are making spurious arguments about the "intimidation" of students by left-leaning professors: http://counterpunch.org/mclennen03212006.html 3/8/06 As military tries to build a culture of militarism in schools, counter-recruitment movement seeks to respond to the blandishments of recruiters: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=9858 3/7/06 Sen. Rick Santorum writes forward for book espousing intelligent design http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/14041641.htm 3/6/06 Supreme Court upholds military recruitment in colleges and universities: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030600562.html 2/28/06 Utah rejects bill that would require students be told that evolution is only a theory, not a fact: http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-main-9-l1&flok=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20060228%2F0554197509.htm&sc=1110 2/26/06 College professor: Horowitz to the contrary, college students are neither conservative nor radical, just banal and market-oriented; isn't that what the right-wingers want? http://counterpunch.org/smith02252006.html 2/23/06 The Nation: Princeton Tilts Right http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060313/blumenthal 2/17/06 Ohio: State board removes refrences to intelligent design http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=166394 2/17/06 Middle East studies on U.S. campuses being attacked: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NET20060216&articleId=1987 2/17/06 Bill barring intelligent design draws national notice http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=72932&ntpid=1 2/2/06 Right-wingers paying students to spy on "liberal" professors at UCLA: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/wiener 2/1/06 ACLU settles suit in New Mexico to prevent public schools release of student data to military recruiters: http://www.aclu.org/privacy/youth/23962prs20060127.html 1/31/06 Controversy swirls as public schools consider Bible study courses: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-01-24-bible-elective_x.htm?csp=N016&RM_Exclude=aol 1/20/06 Right wingers pay students to spy on their professors: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011906G.shtml
1/20/06 Vatican newspaper column signals papal ambiguity on intelligent design instruction in schools: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011906N.shtml
1/12/06 Military recruitments target students with inducements: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/29/military_recruiters_pursue_target_schools_carefully/
1/11/06 California parents sue school over "intelligent design" instruction: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060111/ZNYT02/601110319/-1/wire02
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Analysis & views: 2/11/08 Evolution as a "big idea" required for study by all Florida school children, being considered by state education department, is an idea many Floridians don't like. http://www.miamiherald.com/438/story/414360.html 4/12/06 Florida colleges and universities visit Homeland Security's pork barrel in search of grants for research in security alert systems: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14320853.htm 2/28/06 South Florida legislator wants to restrict travel by researchers from state-run schools to Cuba and "other terrorist states." http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13978070.htm 1/11/06 Bush plan for increased minority college enrollment: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060111/LOCAL/201110325/1078
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Analysis and views: Pinellas Co.: 9/13/07 Pinellas County school board crafts a policy designed to allow "access" by recruiters and others to students without interfering with the mission of keeping students mostly in classes. http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/13/Northpinellas/Recruiting_limits_oka.shtml Orlando: 9/2/07 Plans for student production of La Cage aux Folle at Trinity Preparatory School are thwarted by Episcopal bishop's request that the school not allow production in its auditorium; Orlando area theatres offer alternative performance venue. Orlando: 3/14/06 UCF gets $1 million per year grant from Pentagon to help train military teams for rescuers and other "crisis" situations: :
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