https://www.ncsl.org/health/state-policies-on-sex-education-in-schools
All schools that provide sex education courses are required to be developmentally and age appropriate, medically accurate, evidence-based and complete.
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/sex-and-hiv-education
The majority of states require schools to involve parents in sex education and/or HIV education by requiring parental consent or notice, or by allowing ...
https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/sex-education
California students have the right to comprehensive sex education that is medically accurate, inclusive, and unbiased.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2550487/
by AR Mellanby · 1995 · Cited by 242 — OBJECTIVES--To develop and teach a school sex education programme that will lead to a decrease in sexual activity. DESIGN--A matched inte
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/18/12/state-sex-education
Dec 4, 2018 — Only 24 states and the District of Columbia mandate sex education in public schools. Even fewer states include consent.
https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(01)00401-3/fulltext
by E Häggström-Nordin · 2002 · Cited by 133 — To investigate sexual behavior and attitudes toward sexuality among first-year high school students in Sweden in 1999
https://www.coe.int/en/web/pestalozzi/sexed
SexEd is about verbalising sex and sexuality without prejudice and stereotyping by using healthy discourse, building on understanding and respect for sexual ...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X2300438X
by GM Wetzel · 2024 · Cited by 12 — Comprehensive sex education (CSE) encourages safer sex behavior for teens and young adults. However, young people recognize a gap between se
https://www.cdc.gov/healthy-youth/what-works-in-schools/sexual-health-education.html
Nov 29, 2024 — A quality school health education program helps youth develop skills and knowledge to promote healthy sexuality.
https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/sex-education-programs-definitions-funding-and-impact-on-teen-sexual-health/
Oct 30, 2025 — This issue brief reviews the major sex education models and funding streams that are most commonly used, highlights state policies on sex ...
https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol57/iss2/4/
by AE Johnson · 2004 · Cited by 15 — Proponents argue that single-sex education decreases classroom discrimination, improves educational experiences for both boys and girls, an
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/only-37-of-us-states-require-sexual-education-in-schools-to-be-medically-accurate/
Aug 21, 2025 — As a result, the decision to provide sexual education to students falls to states or local school ... sex (9 states). Two of the 12 states ( ...
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/for-educators/whats-state-sex-education-us
Sex education is widely supported by the vast majority of people in the United States. In Planned Parenthood's most recent poll on sex education, 84 percent of ...
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_219.10.asp
Includes imputations for nonreporting states. 7 Projected by private schools responding to the Private School Universe Survey. 8 Includes estimates for public ...
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol2/iss2/5/
by SR Tortolero · 2011 · Cited by 49 — Parents in Harris County overwhelmingly support sex education that includes medically accurate information about condoms and contraceptio
https://19thnews.org/2025/11/sexual-education-schools-state-politics/
Nov 17, 2025 — Although the state requires schools to teach sex education and evidence-based HIV/AIDS instruction, the curriculum is not required to cover ...
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/high-school-sex-ed-may-prevent-sexual-assault-college
Nov 14, 2018 — SHIFT, which is supported by the Office of the President, looks holistically at the undergraduate experiences, using a public health approach to ...
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/S0020-7292%2898%2900197-0
by R Short · 1998 · Cited by 51 — Objecti¨e: To teach safe sex practices to adolescents in school, before they start to become sexually active, using peer group education.
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/category/relationships-and-sex-education/
Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) is a subject taught at both primary and secondary school.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19361653.2020.1789530
by KA Sondag · 2022 · Cited by 73 — This study examined the inclusivity of sex education in Montana's high schools and the challenges faced by teachers in providing sex educati