Rewind quickly to the ‘good old days’ of the 60′s, 70′s, and early 80′s: sex ed in public grade school was a very taboo issue–to put it mildly. Now, with record numbers of teenagers having sex, getting pregnant, and acquiring STD’s, sexual education is considered paramount in many schools around the country. It fact, it’s [...]

Sex education is a subject that has been left on the back burner of American politics and the back page of news papers since the its inception. Parents fighting school boards, fighting religious groups, and so the cycle continues. If ignorance and abhorrence to the ideas of sexual education persist, the youth of the nation [...]

A National Public Radio report from 2004 announced that the debate over whether to teach sex education or not is over—only 7% of respondents think that there ought to be no sex education in schools. The central dispute today is whether students will be taught “abstinence-only” or contraceptive-based curricula. The most comprehensive looks at the [...]