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Article: Sexuality education.
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- Social Policy
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Calls for sexuality education for young people are more than a century old. In 1892 and again in 1914, the National Education Association promoted sex education as a necessary part of a national education curriculum. In 1899, the PTA (then known as the Congress of Parents and Teachers) promoted sexuality education before puberty. In 1906, the YWCA created a Commission on Sex Education. In 1920, the US Public Health Service conducted 50 regional conferences on sexuality in high schools and colleges. Twenty years later, largely as a result of the government campaign against syphilis, they labeled sex education in schools an "urgent need."
During the 1960s, however, a ...
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Article: BALANCED SEXUALITY EDUCATION
The Boston Globe;
September 16, 2002 ;
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... ... RE NOT RUNNING A PROGRAM IN SEX EDUCATION," INDICATES HE HAS A MISUNDERSTANDING OF GSAS AND SEXUALITY EDUCATION ("SILBER DRAWS FIRE FROM COUNCILOR ... lives. Balanced and responsible sexuality education is the most appropriate way ...
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