/sexual-behavior Sexual Behavior en-US 2021 (c) Education Week Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:35:58 GMT /leadership/drug-use-smoking-sexual-activity-and-milk-down-among-teenagers/2018/06 Fewer U.S. teenagers are smoking, having sex, and doing drugs these days—and they're drinking less milk. Less than one-third of high school students drink a glass of milk a day, according to a large government survey released last week. Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:35:58 GMT /leadership/drug-use-smoking-sexual-activity-and-milk-down-among-teenagers/2018/06 /leadership/sex-for-food-reports-highlight-fallout-of-teen-hunger/2016/09 Teenagers in 10 communities report engaging in risky behavior to avoid food insecurity, according to new Urban Institute studies. Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:57:34 GMT /leadership/sex-for-food-reports-highlight-fallout-of-teen-hunger/2016/09 /leadership/teen-birth-rates-hit-all-time-low-but-disparities-persist/2016/04 Births to American teenagers have dropped 40 percent in the last decade, hitting an all-time low in 2014, new federal data show. But Hispanic and black teens still have significantly higher rates than their white peers. Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:48:15 GMT /leadership/teen-birth-rates-hit-all-time-low-but-disparities-persist/2016/04 /education/opinion-affirmative-consent-wont-work-in-sexual-situations/2015/11 Sexual passion and rational thinking do not mix any more than oil and water. Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:39:00 GMT /education/opinion-affirmative-consent-wont-work-in-sexual-situations/2015/11 /policy-politics/california-blazes-trail-with-new-sex-education-mandates/2015/10 A pair of new laws includes a requirement that students learn about affirmative sexual consent, known as "yes means yes." Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:56:57 GMT /policy-politics/california-blazes-trail-with-new-sex-education-mandates/2015/10 /leadership/teenagers-often-get-wrong-idea-about-peers-behaviors-study-finds/2015/01 Teenagers overestimate how often their peers participate in risky sexual and drug-related behaviors, and those misperceptions may cause them to adjust their own behaviors, adapting to social norms that don't actually exist, a study has found. Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:31:41 GMT /leadership/teenagers-often-get-wrong-idea-about-peers-behaviors-study-finds/2015/01 /leadership/teenage-pregnancy/2014/04 Eighty-three percent of U.S. teenagers did not receive any sex education before they first had sex, according to a new federal report. Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:44:17 GMT /leadership/teenage-pregnancy/2014/04 /leadership/study-weighs-academic-effects-of-sports-early-sex-bullying-on-teenagers/2014/02 A new research review examines the academic impacts of a wide range of teenage behaviors, from television-watching to early sexual activity to playing sports, and finds that the effects are often mediated by a student's particular social milieu. Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:35:00 GMT /leadership/study-weighs-academic-effects-of-sports-early-sex-bullying-on-teenagers/2014/02 /leadership/teenagers-have-discovered-sexting-researchers-conclude/2014/01 A new study attempts to probe how much the practice can explain adolescent sexual behavior. Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:25:30 GMT /leadership/teenagers-have-discovered-sexting-researchers-conclude/2014/01 /leadership/teen-pregnancy-rate-at-its-lowest-again-cdc-says/2013/05 In the latest figures, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the overall rate dropped 25 percent since 2007, and about 50 percent since 1991. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:12:24 GMT /leadership/teen-pregnancy-rate-at-its-lowest-again-cdc-says/2013/05 /leadership/opinion-knowing-the-warning-signs-of-sexual-misconduct/2013/02 Educators can prevent much of the sexual misconduct in schools if they know how to recognize and respond to suspicious patterns and if administrators enforce an environment of high expectations for behavior. Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:00:53 GMT /leadership/opinion-knowing-the-warning-signs-of-sexual-misconduct/2013/02 /leadership/teen-pregnancy-rate-drops-to-lowest-ever-recorded-cdc-says/2012/10 Across all racial groups, the birth rate declined by 25 percent overall from 2007 to 2011, the CDC said in a new report. The birth rate for teenagers ages 15 to 17 years was 15.4 per 1,000, 29 percent lower than in 2007, while the rate for teens ages 18-19 years fell to 54.1 per 1,000, which is 25 percent lower than in 2007. Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:29:21 GMT /leadership/teen-pregnancy-rate-drops-to-lowest-ever-recorded-cdc-says/2012/10 /education/opinion-pregnant-girls-pushed-out-of-school/2012/08 If we as a nation want to address the dropout crisis, we must address discrimination against pregnant and parenting students. This is a critical first step to keeping these young women in school and securing a better future for them and their children. Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:53:01 GMT /education/opinion-pregnant-girls-pushed-out-of-school/2012/08 /technology/study-finds-texting-linked-to-sex-and-drug-use/2010/11 Teenagers who text at least 120 times a day are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than their peers who don't send as many messages, according to provocative new research. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:58:33 GMT /technology/study-finds-texting-linked-to-sex-and-drug-use/2010/11 /education/study-finds-teen-pregnancies-on-the-rise/2010/02 After declining or leveling off for 15 years, the pregnancy rate among U.S. teenagers rose again in 2006, a report published last week by the Guttmacher Institute says. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:31:03 GMT /education/study-finds-teen-pregnancies-on-the-rise/2010/02 /leadership/abstinence-only-program-can-delay-teen-sex-study-finds/2010/02 An experimental, abstinence-only approach to sex education can delay young teenagers from engaging in sexual activity, a new study finds Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:16:04 GMT /leadership/abstinence-only-program-can-delay-teen-sex-study-finds/2010/02 /policy-politics/teacher-sex-with-teenage-students-would-be-felony-under-s-c-bill/2009/03 South Carolina teachers who have sex with students 16 and older could be sent to prison for up to five years, under a bill that won initial approval from state lawmakers. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:36:53 GMT /policy-politics/teacher-sex-with-teenage-students-would-be-felony-under-s-c-bill/2009/03 /leadership/opinion-fewer-teens-having-sex-than-in-the-1990s-says-cdc/2008/06 The new Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a survey of 14,000 American high school students conducted annually by the Centers for Disease Control, shows that African-American and white teens are less likely to be sexually active than they were in 1991, though the declines are more precipitous for African-Americans. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:48:32 GMT /leadership/opinion-fewer-teens-having-sex-than-in-the-1990s-says-cdc/2008/06 /education/opinion-a-different-sex-story/2008/03 $4300 is today's magic number, but perhaps we should be talking about 25% instead. Today, a CDC study reports that 1 in 4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease. From the AP article: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:03:01 GMT /education/opinion-a-different-sex-story/2008/03 /leadership/states-are-divided-on-vaccinations-for-hpv/2007/03 Lawmakers are questioning the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, parents' rights, and states' ability to afford the three-shot cycle. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:19:02 GMT /leadership/states-are-divided-on-vaccinations-for-hpv/2007/03 /leadership/opinion-music-the-media-and-teenage-sex/2006/10 Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown, authors of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers’ Schemes, write that educators need to re-examine sexual education curricula in order to address the racy depiction of sexuality in the media. Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:57:28 GMT /leadership/opinion-music-the-media-and-teenage-sex/2006/10 /leadership/social-norms-seen-to-keep-students-on-right-track/2006/09 Rather than scare students out of misbehaving, social-norms educators use survey data on students’ actual behavior to underscore that, when it comes to avoiding risky habits, many students are already doing the right thing. Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:27:32 GMT /leadership/social-norms-seen-to-keep-students-on-right-track/2006/09 /policy-politics/federal-panels-cancer-vaccine-recommendation-has-implications-for-schools/2006/06 The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted yesterday to recommend routine vaccinations for girls ages 11 and 12 against human papillomavirus, the common sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer, opening the door for debate nationwide about the vaccine’s inclusion in school vaccination policies. Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:42:16 GMT /policy-politics/federal-panels-cancer-vaccine-recommendation-has-implications-for-schools/2006/06 /education/oral-sex-common-among-teenagers-study-says/2005/09 More than half of American teenagers admit to having engaged in oral sex with a member of the opposite sex, a survey found. Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:03:32 GMT /education/oral-sex-common-among-teenagers-study-says/2005/09 /education/teenage-sex/2005/03 Hispanic teenagers’ low level of acculturation to U.S. society provides a “significant protective factor” against their engaging in sexual intercourse during adolescence, according to a study published in this month’s Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:29:00 GMT /education/teenage-sex/2005/03 /education/opinion-with-sex-its-no-longer-safe-to-be-ignorant/2005/03 Your provocative headline on Gilbert T. Sewall’s "Common Sense for Sex Education?" (Commentary, Feb. 16, 2005) may be an oxymoron. In pondering my personal experience over half a century, I see little that makes good sense. Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:18:34 GMT /education/opinion-with-sex-its-no-longer-safe-to-be-ignorant/2005/03 /leadership/researchers-map-teen-sex-pattern/2005/02 In a study that has implications for high school sex education, researchers for the first time have mapped the sexual and romantic relationships of students in an entire high school over an 18-month period. Wed, 02 Feb 2005 03:17:00 GMT /leadership/researchers-map-teen-sex-pattern/2005/02 /teaching-learning/clear-consistent-messages-help-deter-teen-pregnancy-study-finds/2001/06 After years of elusive answers to the problem of teenage pregnancy, a leading group involved in the issue has released a new and more optimistic report that outlines several effective and varied tactics in deterring adolescent sex and pregnancy. Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:00:00 GMT /teaching-learning/clear-consistent-messages-help-deter-teen-pregnancy-study-finds/2001/06 /teaching-learning/international-birthrates/1998/05 Wed, 20 May 1998 14:00:00 GMT /teaching-learning/international-birthrates/1998/05 /teaching-learning/u-s-teenage-birthrate-tops-industrial-nations/1998/05 Clinton Administration officials have hailed the recently reported five-year drop in the teenage birthrate as a national achievement. They have cited better contraceptive use and abstinence education as proof that school and community-based approaches thwart childbearing by teenagers. Wed, 20 May 1998 14:00:00 GMT /teaching-learning/u-s-teenage-birthrate-tops-industrial-nations/1998/05