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The National Education Association called for teacher training programs and guidance in sexuality education.
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Schools began to integrate sex education into their curriculums.
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In the 1930s, the U.S. Office of Education began to publish materials and train teachers.
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In the 1940s and 50s, courses in sexuality began to appear on college campuses.
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In 1953, the American School Health Association launced a nationwide program in family life education. The American Medical Association, along with the NEA, published five pamphlets that were referred to as "the sex education series" for schools.
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In 1964, Mary Calderone, a physician who had been the medical director at Planned Parenthood, founded the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. SIECUS was created in part to challenge the hegemony of the American Social Hygiene Association, which then dominated sex-education curriculum development.
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In 1968, The U.S. Office of Education gave New York University a grant to develop graduate programs for training sex-education teachers.
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In June of 1989, SIECUS published Sex Education 2000: A Call to Action, which outlined 13 goals that would ensure that all children received comprehensive sexuality education by the year 2000.
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