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From: joya banerjee [ profile ]
Subject: NYTimes: Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text
Sent: Dec 31st, 2011 - 16:32:51
  A great idea that should be replicated in other countries/languages!

Joya



NYTimes: Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text
Published: December 30, 2011
By JAN HOFFMAN

While heading to class last year, Stephanie Cisneros, a Denver-area
high school junior, was arguing with a friend about ways that sexually
transmitted diseases might be passed along.

Ms. Cisneros knew she could resolve the dispute in class — but not by
raising her hand. While her biology teacher lectured about fruit
flies, Ms. Cisneros hid her phone underneath her lab table and typed a
message to ICYC (In Case You’re Curious), a text-chat program run by
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.


Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/us/sex-education-for-teenagers-online-and-in-texts.html?src=recg


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