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   JROTC: the Military in America's High Schools
 
 
y most measurements, America's public education system is failing its students. Among other industrial nations, the US lags in science and math scores, and is rated next to the bottom in educating students to compete in the global economy. With millions of young lives at stake and an education system in crisis, is it time to send in the troops?
 

Featured Experts:

Adm Eugene Carroll (USN, Ret.), Deputy Director
Center for Defense Information

Lt. Col Mike Hayes, Director, High School Directorate
Us Army Cadet Command

Lt Col Clyde Henderson, JROTC Instructor
Ballou High School, Washington, D.C.

Barbara Wein, Director
Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development

Lavelle Williams
Former Jrotc Student

Tom Wilson
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Personnel Management and Equal Opportunity

Produced: June 4, 1995
Running Time: 29 minutes
Show Number: 838

Price: $39
Internet Discount: $29

 
 

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