{"id":133296,"date":"2018-01-11T10:11:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=133296"},"modified":"2018-01-11T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:12:56","slug":"military-recruitment-programs-public-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/01\/military-recruitment-programs-public-high-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Recruitment Programs in Public High Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133297 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Scott-Harding-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Harding\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Scott-Harding-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Scott-Harding-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Scott-Harding-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Scott-Harding-560x420.jpg 560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ssw.uconn.edu\/scott-harding-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Scott Harding<\/a> has researched the movement to counter military recruitment programs in public high schools. \u201cIt\u2019s a neglected issue that needs to be highlighted so that we can have a more informed discussion about what it means to allow recruiters into schools to convince 16- and 17- year olds to join the military\u201d he says. \u201cMany people are comfortable with it, many oppose it, but there\u2019s also a large group who don\u2019t know its happening.\u201d He interviewed more than 70 counter-recruitment activists in 24 cities across the country, and his book,\u00a0<em>Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to De-Militarize Public Schools<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan), co-authored with Seth Kershner of Northwestern Connecticut Community College, is a result of this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Scott Harding has researched the movement to counter military recruitment programs in public high schools. \u201cIt\u2019s a neglected issue that needs to be highlighted so that we can have a more informed discussion about what it means to allow recruiters into schools to convince 16- and 17- year olds to join the military\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":133297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-133296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 20:40:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/133297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133296"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=133296"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=133296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}