Sex Education in Schools

High quality essays written by experts on education are presented. Essays discuss the controversies surrounding sex education in public schools, the primary elements associated with sex education, and an overview of the arguments for and against various forms of sex ed.

Sex Education in Schools Today

Sex education curriculum and policy is increasingly tied to school funding. In 1996, President Clinton's welfare reform package included nationally instituted abstinence...
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History of Sex Education

Discussion on a national level over what to teach children about sex in schools existed as early as 1912, when the National Education Association recommended that teachers...
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An Overview of Sexual Education in Schools

The debate over sex education in the United States centers on the question of who should teach students about issues relating to sex such as intercourse, pregnancy, contraception and...
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Editor's Choice

The Sex-Ed Debate.

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial. Discusses the controversy over the idea to teach abstinence as part of sex education in schools in the United States. READ MORE »

Bringing Parents into the Picture.

Educational Leadership

Discusses how schools and families can work together to provide a character-based approach in sex education. Challenges of teaching sex education;... READ MORE »

Parents Want Schools to Teach More Sex Education.

Curriculum Administrator

Reports on the preference of parents for more sex education courses in schools in the United States. Opinion of students and teachers towards sex... READ MORE »

Rhode Island allocates additional $3.5M to 1999 technology budget

Electronic Education Report

Reports that the Rhode Island State Legislature has allocated addition $3.5 million to 1999 technology budget for schools. READ MORE »

A framework for theory applicable to the education of landscape architects (and other environmental design professionals)

Landscape Journal

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Majority Of Teachers Ill-Prepared To Integrate Technology Into Classes

Educational Marketer

Focuses on the report `New Teachers and Technology: Examining Perceptions, Habits and Professional Development Experiences,' by Market Data Retrieval... READ MORE »

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Education Parliamentary Monitor

This article discusses various reports published within the issue including a synopsis of parliamentary and government activity in November 2008,... READ MORE »

Can our colleges fix our schools? Three guiding maxims

Academic Questions

Presents three guiding maxims for people in higher education to address problems affecting primary and secondary education. Importance for colleges... READ MORE »

Universities

Asian Business Review

Reports that rising incomes and increasingly complex industrial processes are fuelling demand for higher training and education in Asia Pacific.... READ MORE »

News commentary and opinion

Africa Report

Discusses how education continues to be the linchpin of development in African countries and long after most development projects have run their... READ MORE »

A math question for the superintendent: Why 4 times more cost for 10 percent less result?

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

Examines the reasons why Canadian education is falling apart. The central Alberta County of Lacombe school deputy superintendent Lyle Lorenz;... READ MORE »

Low esteem for self-esteem

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

Outlines the new list of official goals of the Edmonton Public School Board as approved last December. The chief objective for the next three years... READ MORE »

Time out for `time-out' rooms

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

States parents in Edmonton are calling cosily appointed `time-out' rooms brutally oppressive. Alberta public schools have used the small cells to... READ MORE »

To see where our schools are headed, take a look at the Soviet Union

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

Compares the collapse of the communist states with the state of Canada's fossilized and disintegrating school system. Figures from Statistics Canada... READ MORE »

At Lord of the Flies Composite High, students have `unconditional self-regard.'

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

Argues that the latest rash of headlines such as `teachers fear students' amounts to clear proof of malpractice on the part of principals, collusion... READ MORE »

`Abandoning the schools to the kids.'

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

Tells how Edmonton Police Chief Doug McNally called for police officers in every high school two weeks ago after he found teachers an an unidentified... READ MORE »

Alberta is going to wreck the charter school experiment before it starts

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

Argues that the stated purpose of Alberta Education in regard to pilot charter schools, `the development of innovative alternatives within the public... READ MORE »

Only radical restructuring will match Asia

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine

Argues that Alberta, Canada must reconstruct its education system to compete with Asian counterparts in the new global economy. Grade 11 honor... READ MORE »

Washington update

Black Issues in Higher Education

Presents news briefs pertaining to education. Details on the reauthorizing of the Higher Education Act (HEA), a federal law governing aid to... READ MORE »