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Sexual Education And Teens: A Study Of The Effectiveness Of Greater Lowell Area Public High Schools, Victoria Harkins
Sexual Education And Teens: A Study Of The Effectiveness Of Greater Lowell Area Public High Schools, Victoria Harkins
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In 2008, the teen birth rate for Lowell, Massachusetts was 142.3% higher than the teen birth rate for all of Massachusetts. The State of Massachusetts does not mandate sexual education or education about sexually transmitted disease (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS), but instead provides curriculum recommendations. This study examines the health and sexual education curricula from nine public high schools in Greater Lowell, comparing their content to the recommendations of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework. Data were collected using two methods: a survey of health educators, and a content analysis of 9th-12th grade health curricula. …