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Sex Education
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The birds and the bees
Geddes and Thomson's The Evolution of Sex was an important work in providing ways of talking about "the birds and the bees". It approached the topic of sexual reproduction via forms of life remote from humans, in- cluding amoebas, plants, insects and animals before finally moving on to human beings -
National Education Association first discussed Sex Education
Passed a resolution that called for "moral education in the schools" -
Chicago first major city to implement sex ed in high schools
The program didn't last long. The Catholic Church launched a campaign against the initiative, helping force Ella Flagg Young (the superintendent of schools) to resign. -
Sex Education
Sex Education was introduced to the American Public School system in 1913 -
The Chamberlain-Kahn Act passed
Spreading of STD's during WW1 got the federal government involved in sex ed. Congress passed the Chamberlain-Kahn Act, which gave money to educate soldiers about syphilis and gnorrhea. -
1944 Education Act
1944 Education Act gave lip-service to the need for sex education in schools. However, it was an extremely laissez-faire situation, with individual schools being allowed to choose how they wanted to approach the subject, and there was little government support. -
U.S. Public Health Service
Until the 1950s, the federal government remained involved in sex education, mainly through the U.S. Public Health Service, emphasizing the medical and moral dangers of sexually transmitted diseases. -
1953 the American School Health Association launched a nationwide program in family life education.
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SIECUS created
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). SIECUS was created in part to challenge the hegemony of the American Social Hygiene Association, which then dominated sex-education curriculum development. -
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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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. The introduction to this document speaks to the optimism of the time: “A new national consensus on the importance of sexuality education is emerging ... National public leaders, including the Surgeon General of the United States, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Health and Human Services have recen -
Welfare Reform Act
Religious conservatives helped add provisions for abstinence education to the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, and the Federal government directed tens of millions of dollars to abstinence-education programs for the first time. -
The REAL act
The REAL Act would ensure that young Americans would be educated and informed with medically accurate information about abstinence, contraception and disease prevention. These programs will supply young people with the tools to make informed decisions, resist peer pressure, set goals, manage stress, be responsible, understand and accept diversity, build healthy relationships and have access to up-to-date information about how they can protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections, i -
Obama gets elected
Obama advocates comprehensive sex education and cut funds for abstinence-only sex education programs -
Modern sex ed hits TV
Channel 4 brought a modern take on sex education to the small screen with The Joy Of Teen Sex. The programme reached millions of teens and their parents but was criticised by a coalition of sexual health practioners for "portraying inaccurate or outdated and misleading representations of sex education" -
Training begins for teachers
In 1912 the National Education Association decided it was approiate for teachers to begin training for sexuality education programs.
