City Room: Military Recruiting in Schools
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A new report asserts that military recruiters were allowed to use class time to make presentations, in violation of Education Department guidelines.
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Draft guidance advises schools in England how to search pupils for weapons without consent.
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A FEW years ago, a young man in his freshman year of college had a vision for a better way to provide high school students with the information they need to find colleges that are a good fit.
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To learn what is right and wrong about federal recruiting, listen to young people.
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Hollywood visual effects wizards and video game programmers: U.S. military doctors want you.
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A two-year research project on how to market the government on college campuses indicates that e-mails touting hot jobs and cool internships, along with other low-cost outreach activities, could increase interest among students in working for Uncle Sam.
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By Jeffrey Gaunt  jgaunt@@dailyherald.com  So much for those trips to a computer lab or visits to the school library.  Huntley High School students in a "smart" classroom would just have to open their desks if they wanted to conduct a little research.
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Perched atop a stack of foot lockers in a spotless barracks, drill instructor Gunnery Sgt. Celestino Casias asks 45 shaven-headed recruits what it takes to be a Marine. "Honor, courage, commitment!" the aspiring fighters shout in unison.
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In high school, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. was surprisingly self-assured, knowing early what he wanted to do with his life: the military.
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Military recruiters have increasingly resorted to overly aggressive tactics and even criminal activity to attract young troops to the battlefield, congressional investigators say.
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Governments in at least 10 countries continue to use children to fight on the frontline, according to a new report. &quot;Scores of armed political groups in most regions of the world continued to recruit children
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A young person's life prospects improve dramatically by getting a college education, but the country's schools have room for only one in six applicants
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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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Blog: It's a stun gun on a robot. The military wants them, and probably so do a lot of 13-year-old boys.
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Ministers must do more to ensure children of armed services personnel move smoothly between schools, MPs say.
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Elizabeth Brothers is 17 and looking for her dream college. Her search took her to devastated New Orleans. To college recruiters, the aspiring military officer from Midlothian, Va., was a welcome sight. Without a steady flow of students coming to poke around, New Orleans' long academic tradition could dim to a memory. Some of the city's premier colleges rely largely on tuition from out-of-state students.
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As hundreds of thousands of baby boomers retire and the No Child Left Behind law raises standards for new teachers, school systems across the country are facing a growing scarcity of qualified recruits.