Sexual Behavior
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Education
Report Roundup
Study Finds Teen Pregnancies on the Rise
After declining or leveling off for 15 years, the pregnancy rate among U.S. teenagers rose again in 2006, a report published last week by the Guttmacher Institute says.
School & District Management
Abstinence-Only Program Can Delay Teen Sex, Study Finds
An experimental, abstinence-only approach to sex education can delay young teenagers from engaging in sexual activity, a new study finds
Law & Courts
News in Brief
Teacher Sex With Teenage Students Would be Felony Under S.C. Bill
South Carolina teachers who have sex with students 16 and older could be sent to prison for up to five years, under a bill that won initial approval from state lawmakers.
School & District Management
Opinion
Fewer Teens Having Sex Than in the 1990s, Says CDC
The new Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a survey of 14,000 American high school students conducted annually by the Centers for Disease Control, shows that African-American and white teens are less likely to be sexually active than they were in 1991, though the declines are more precipitous for African-Americans.
Education
Opinion
A Different Sex Story
$4300 is today's magic number, but perhaps we should be talking about 25% instead. Today, a CDC study reports that 1 in 4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease. From the AP article:
Student Well-Being
States Are Divided on Vaccinations for HPV
Lawmakers are questioning the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, parents' rights, and states' ability to afford the three-shot cycle.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Music, the Media, and Teenage Sex
Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown, authors of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers’ Schemes, write that educators need to re-examine sexual education curricula in order to address the racy depiction of sexuality in the media.
Student Well-Being
‘Social Norms’ Seen to Keep Students on Right Track
Rather than scare students out of misbehaving, social-norms educators use survey data on students’ actual behavior to underscore that, when it comes to avoiding risky habits, many students are already doing the right thing.
Federal
Federal Panel’s Cancer-Vaccine Recommendation Has Implications for Schools
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted yesterday to recommend routine vaccinations for girls ages 11 and 12 against human papillomavirus, the common sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer, opening the door for debate nationwide about the vaccine’s inclusion in school vaccination policies.
Education
Report Roundup
Oral Sex Common Among Teenagers, Study Says
More than half of American teenagers admit to having engaged in oral sex with a member of the opposite sex, a survey found.
Education
Report Roundup
Teenage Sex
Hispanic teenagers’ low level of acculturation to U.S. society provides a “significant protective factor” against their engaging in sexual intercourse during adolescence, according to a study published in this month’s Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Education
Letter to the Editor
With Sex, It’s No Longer ‘Safe to Be Ignorant’
Your provocative headline on Gilbert T. Sewall’s "Common Sense for Sex Education?" (Commentary, Feb. 16, 2005) may be an oxymoron. In pondering my personal experience over half a century, I see little that makes good sense.
School & District Management
Researchers Map Teen Sex Pattern
In a study that has implications for high school sex education, researchers for the first time have mapped the sexual and romantic relationships of students in an entire high school over an 18-month period.
Curriculum
Clear, Consistent Messages Help Deter Teen Pregnancy, Study Finds
After years of elusive answers to the problem of teenage pregnancy, a leading group involved in the issue has released a new and more optimistic report that outlines several effective and varied tactics in deterring adolescent sex and pregnancy.
