In the first presidential debate, President Obama defined himself as the education candidate who would invest more in schools. What the president didn’t mention is how he defunded a vitally important ...

New research is challenging the effectiveness of abstinence-only education. Eric White of Best Men, a program that advocates abstinence for young men is joined by sex educator Deborah Roffman to share ...

A new study of sex education compares comprehensive programs to ones that promote abstinence only, and finds that teaching abstinence doesn't have a profound impact on reducing young people's number ...

Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the ...

The running dispute between abstinence education and comprehensive sex education flares up at least once a year around budget request time. Comprehensive sex education programs claim to teach ...

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President Bush’s proposal to almost double the amount of money the federal government spends on abstinence education to $273 million in fiscal 2005 has raised the stakes in the battle over what to ...

The Fort Worth Independent School District will implement an abstinence-based sex education curriculum after about two hours of debate from proponents and opponents of the approach that emphasizes ...

WASHINGTON – President Obama allocated zero dollars toward abstinence-only education in his 2011 federal budget. He did the same in his last budget. But a landmark study published in the February ...

Planned Parenthood and other contraceptive-focused sex education gurus aren't the only ones with something to contribute when it comes to talking to teens about sex. But they insist on getting all the ...

More than half of Mississippi's school districts have chosen an abstinence-only approach to sex education, starting in the upcoming school year.A list released Friday by the state Department of ...

North Carolina’s new school health standards don’t go far enough for some conservative groups in promoting the teaching of abstinence until marriage. The State Board of Education voted 7-1 on Thursday ...