In an average US secondary school 10% of the student population is homosexual, yet only a small number of American school districts have taken positive steps to address the problems associated with gay and lesbian students in the predominantly heterosexual educational setting. This book aims to raise awareness of the problems encountered by these adolescents in schools and of the effects of these problems on the dropout rate, academic achievement, substance abuse, AIDS, teenage pregnancy, school violence and suicide. Designed to promote understanding and dispel myths about gay and lesbian tennagers, the volume also makes curriculum suggestions to advocate self-acceptance and tolerance and to reduce homophobia among heterosexual teenagers. It seeks to explain how institutional homophobia has affected the belief system and behaviour of a large segment of the American population. Various themes concerning the origins of sexual development are discussed, as is information concerning students who are children of gay and lesbian parents.
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The issue of homosexuality evokes passionate responses from individuals, yet people do not have a strong concept of its origin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heterosexual questionnaire, lesbian students, lesbian teenagers, lesbian adolescents, lesbian individuals, lesbian children, lesbian youth, famous gays, lesbian teachers, homosexual youth, lesbian teens, workshop goals, lesbian parents, classroom closet, bisexual students, gay fathers, signal safety, bisexual youth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The issue of homosexuality evokes passionate responses from individuals, yet people do not have a strong concept of its origin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heterosexual questionnaire, lesbian students, lesbian teenagers, lesbian adolescents, lesbian individuals, lesbian children, lesbian youth, famous gays, lesbian teachers, homosexual youth, lesbian teens, workshop goals, lesbian parents, classroom closet, bisexual students, gay fathers, signal safety, bisexual youth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Johns Committee, Gay Liberation, Los Angeles, United Way, Rhode Island, San Francisco New!
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- Public Schools in the United States: Agenda Mills or Academic Institutions by Martha W. Daniels in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination In and Out of Schools by Mary Louise Rasmussen on page 63
- Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination In and Out of Schools by Mary Louise Rasmussen on page 60
- Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) by Virginia N. Gordon on page 139
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