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...state in the country that mandates a certain number of hours that schools must devote to sexuality education. In 2004, Jewels' school district in Anderson County decided to do even more. The district partnered with a local teen-pregnancy-prevention organization to implement an innovative relationship and sex-education curriculum that runs through all three years of middle school and into high school, as well as an after-school program for at-risk kids. And that's when the life of Jewels Morris-Davis began to turn around...
...group of women at the local United Way in Anderson County, a semirural, conservative community that is home to 175,000 people. So in 2004 they contacted Impact, a teen-pregnancy-prevention organization in the area, to find out what they could do to help. "They had a curriculum," remembers Carol Burdette, executive director of United Way of Anderson County. "They told us, 'We know this works, but we can't get into the schools...
...probable sabbatical in the 2010-2011 academic year might also contribute to the course’s postponement. So far, this is the only newly-developed course to have been approved for the Science of the Physical Universe category, one of the eight required fields under the new curriculum. Stubbs said his department has been trying hard to provide students with an adequate selection of courses, adding that he is sure students will have good offerings. The other newly-developed course—Societies of the World 20: “China in the Wider World...
Faculty members added that the Business School has taken many steps in the past to revise the curriculum and address previous concerns...
...light of these reports, Benjamin G. Edelman—an assistant professor at the Business School—said that he sees a new opportunity to emphasize the school’s revised curriculum...