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Baumler, E. R., Addy, R. C., Escobar-Chaves, S. L., Reininger, B., & Robin, L.
2012. “Sexual Risk Avoidance and Sexual Risk Reduction Interventions for
Middle School Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Journal of Adolescent
Health, 50(3), 279–288. (Available at: http://tppevidencereview.aspe.hhs.gov/
pdfs/ItsYourGame-KeepItReal.pdf)
92
Round Top-Carmine ISD material on file at TFNEF
93
Northside ISD material on file at TFNEF
112
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Health Education, Chapter 115,
Subchapter C, High School, §115.32 (b)(7)(I), http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/
tac/chapter115/ch115c.html
113
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth Risk Behavior Survey
(YRBS), 2013. Available at: https://nccd.cdc.gov/youthonline/app/Results.
aspx?LID=TX
114
http://texasalmanac.com/topics/facts-profile
94
Sex Can Wait, University of Arkansas Health Education Projects Office. 2005. 69.
95
Ibid, 214.
96
March 8th, 2016.
97
Texas Education Code, Section 28.004. Available at http://www.statutes.legis.
state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.28.htm#28.004.
98
“General Information,” Houston Independent School District. http://www.
houstonisd.org/domain/7908.
99
“About Us,” Change Happens. http://www.changehappenstx.org/about.
Accessed October 18th, 2016.
100
“Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) Table of Contents,” ETR. http://www.
etr.org/ebi/assets/File/BART-Annotated-TOC.pdf. Accessed October 3, 2016.
101
“What’s been updated in ETR’s Evidenced-Based Pregnancy and HIV/STD
115
“Curricula and Speaker Reviews,” SIECUS. 2008. http://www.
communityactionkit.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageId=922
116
WAIT Training and REAL Essentials are both created by the Center for
Relationship Education. Since 2009, WAIT Training has been discontinued and
its activities and lesson folded in with Get REAL to created REAL Essentials.
Given this history, they are counted as one category.
117
This program is run by the East Texas Abstinence Program.
118
Joshua ISD uses Focus 1 and 2 and Impact. They are implemented by Next Step
Women’s Center in Burleson, a crisis pregnancy center. However, researchers
could not find evidence that they were created by the center or by another
organization. Therefore, they were not counted as crisis pregnancy center
curricula.
119
From an email exchange from October 4, 2016
105
http://futureofsexed.org/nationalstandards.html
106
“Characteristics of Effective Sexuality and HIV Education Programs,”
Advocates for Youth. http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/topics-issues/
sexeducation/832?task=view. Advocates for Youth pulled these characteristics
from: Kirby, Douglas. Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to
Reduce Teen Pregnancy. Washington, DC: National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy, 2001.
107
“Characteristics of Effective Sexuality and HIV Education Programs,”
Advocates for Youth. http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/topics-issues/
sexeducation/832?task=view. Advocates for Youth pulled these characteristics
from: Kirby, Douglas. Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to
Reduce Teen Pregnancy. Washington, DC: National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy, 2001.
108
“Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education,” SIECUS 2004.
109
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/topics-issues/glbtq?task=view
Prevention Curricula?,” ETR. http://www.etr.org/ebi/assets/File/2015-EBP-
Updates.pdf. Accessed October 3, 2016.
102
Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools, TFNEF, 2009,
http://tfn.org/cms/assets/uploads/2015/11/SexEdRort09_web.pdf
103
“Rates of reportable STDs among Young People 15-24 Years of Age Texas 2013,”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014. http://www.cdc.gov/
std/stats/by-age/15-24-all-STDs/state/2013/TX13.pdf
104
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.28.htm
110
http://www.glsen.org/article/responsive-curriculum-lgbt-students and http://
www.glsen.org/blog/including-lgbt-content-sex-education-four-wrong-waysand-one-right-one
111
https://answer.rutgers.edu/course/108
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