Fat camp for military recruits
The Army may start a fat camp to slim down overweight recruits. Maj. Gen. Thomas Bostick, head of the Army Recruiting Command, said he wants to see a formal diet and fitness regimen running alongside a...
View ArticleMilitary schools woo high-risk students
Urban districts are opening military magnets to keep high-risk students in school, reports AP. The Marines are talking with at least six districts — including in suburban Atlanta, New Orleans and Las...
View ArticleFrom the military to college
In her years in the military, CheekyReadhead passed demanding courses on ultrasound technology, then worked on cutting-edge equipment. Hospitals were eager to hire her when she left the military. But...
View ArticleArmy rejects 23% of high school grads
Today’s Army won’t take all high school graduates: 23 percent of would-be enlistees flunk the academic test, reports Education Trust in “Shut Out of the Military.” . . . 29 percent of Hispanic Army...
View ArticleROTC plus global studies
Columbia University’s faculty senate passed a pro-ROTC resolution Friday. The Army is interested in restoring ties with Columbia. A Navy unit also is a possibility. Navy ROTC is returning to Harvard....
View ArticleAll your plan are belong to us
How many different ways can I say ambivalence? Courtesy of Educationnews.org: The Oregon House of Representatives recently approved a bill that would make the laying out of a future education or...
View ArticleOklahoma may cancel graduation requirements
Oklahoma may repeal its brand-new graduation requirements for fear of high failure rates, reports the Tulsa World. The class of 2012 is the first group of students to face the state graduation...
View ArticleNYC principals want credit for grads who enlist
New York City high schools will get bonus points for graduates who go to college, but not the military, reports the New York Post. The points could raise a school’s A-F grade on the annual progress...
View ArticleNational servants
Let’s Draft Our Kids, writes Thomas Ricks, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, in a New York Times op-ed. His goal is to discourage wars by putting the children of the powerful at risk...
View ArticleRussia trains patriotic ‘Young Army’
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is promoting “military-patriotic education” training for teens, reports Simon Shuster in Time. At a school outside Moscow, students as young as 11 learn to assemble and load...
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