Published: March 1, 1996

Report Roundup

Following is a guide to recent reports in education and related fields.

Teacher Training And Sexuality.

Undergraduate programs do not adequately prepare teachers to provide schoolchildren with instruction on AIDS and sexuality, a new study says. A survey of 169 colleges and universities found that only one in seven institutions required a health education course for all prospective teachers, and none required future health education teachers to take a course covering AIDS and HIV, the virus that causes the deadly disease. Researchers from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States and Columbia University conducted the study, which appeared in the December/January issue of the SIECUS Report. Individual reprints of Teaching Our Teachers To Teach: A SIECUS Study on Training and Preparation for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Sexuality Education is available free with a self-addressed, stamped envelope from SIECUS, 130 W. 42nd St., Suite 350,...