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...laying aside the chastity belts and condom bananas and embracing comprehensive, abstinence-first education--it's not clear that much would change. That's because for all the battles over funding and policies, no one really knows how sex education is taught inside most classrooms. While most states and local school districts have policies regarding sex education, very few set standards on how to give students factual information about sex or teach them to develop healthy relationships. Even fewer attempt to evaluate what is covered in the classroom, and 17 states don't even require sex education to be taught...
South Carolina has reflected the overall trend of falling teen-sex statistics: birthrates in the state fell 27% from 1991 to 2006. But it still lags behind, with teen birthrates almost 12 points above the national average. Those numbers alarmed a 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...
...pregnancy prevention education" at some point during a student's high school years. It doesn't limit teachers to abstinence-only lessons; rather, it allows each school district to make its own decisions about what sex education should involve. But with federal funding limited to abstinence-only programs, local districts have a powerful incentive to restrict their sex-education curriculum...
...even tied for 16th before and had to swim off.”As the Jones’ talent grew in their late teens, the twins abandoned their second sport—cross-country—and focused on the prospect of recruitment. Despite their childhood fixation with local aquatic powerhouse Michigan, the allure of Cambridge changed the brothers’ thinking.“I feel like swimming is a good balance with academics here,” Bill explains. “I don’t know if I’d find quite the same balance...
While lingering violence in Mosul and Diyala province remains a challenge, the real battle - the one that will define what kind of Iraq emerges as the U.S. withdraws its troops in the next two years - has barely begun. The fundamental problems are many; they are intrasectarian, regional and local, Arab vs. Kurd. On the sixth anniversary of the invasion, Iraq seems to have moved away from all-out war into a more complicated set of realities - where both politics and violence are part of the equation, where the answers to the many what-ifs of its future hold both promise...