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Three Sex Education Lessons From The Teen Pep Stories
[Reference-and-Education] One of the oft-repeated comments by characters in my novel, The Sex Ed Chronicles is that, in the absence of sex education, children learn about sex from their friends. However, the novel was based in 1980, before New Jersey high schools started to involve students in peer counseling. On Valentines Day 2008, I read about a mini-controversy involving peer counseling on a New Jersey radio news Web site.

The Cristo Rey Model is More than a Dream
[Reference-and-Education:Future-Concepts] Shortly after I heard about President Bush's proposal for Pell Grants for low-income children to attend parochial schools, I finished reading More than a Dream: The Christo Rey Story, a inspirational book about the founding of the first Cristo Rey Jesuit high school in Chicago's Pilsen/Little Village neighborhood. More than a Dream is a history of the challenges that Jesuit leaders and Jesuit school alumni faced twelve years ago. Cristo Rey started with a focus on its neighborhood, to educate low ...

Summit on Faith Based Schools More Powerful Than Money
[Reference-and-Education] During his final State of the Union Address, President Bush announced two proposals for faith-based schools; one, a grants program for low-income students similar to Pell Grants for college students, and the other a national Presidential summit on faith-based education. The summit is more important than the grants program.

Want to Teach Intelligent Design? Put It In a History Class
[Reference-and-Education:Future-Concepts] In 1980, the Reagan Revolution meant not only a reconsideration of sex education, but also a reconsideration of the theory of evolution. Back then, the alternative theory was called creationism or scientific creationism; today it's called intelligent design.