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PART 1 (15:00)
TEACHING
CHILDREN ABOUT SEX
PART 2
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SCHOOL CHOICE: WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC KNOW?
Part
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TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT SEX
GUEST...
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 Robie
H. Harris, author, began her career as a teacher at the Bank
Street College of Education's School for Children. She has authored
12 books for children ranging from toddler and pre-schooler age
to adolescence. All of her books have been acclaimed by critics,
and she has received many awards and citations.
Robie is a popular speaker around the country on topics such as,
"It's Not the Kids! It's Us! Whose Responsibility Is It to Educate
Our Kids and Teens about Sexual Health?"; "Is It Time to Talk
About IT? Why We Need to Talk with Our Younger Children about
Sex"; and "Using Children's Books to Talk about the Questions
and Concerns of Children." Her professional experience includes:
writer, Publications Department, Bank Street College of Education,
New York, New York; co-author of daily segments for "The Captain
Kangaroo Show,"CBS Television; and co-producer and director of
"Child's Eye View,"s a film for teachers and parents
on the daily life of children in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood
of Manhattan-- screened at the Lincoln Center Film Festival.
Her
education experience includes: director, The After-School
Program, Bank Street College Early Childhood Center, Headstart
Model Program, New York, New York; teacher, The Smallwood
Drive School, Williamsville, New York; and second grade
master teacher, Bank Street School for Children, New York,
New York.
Robie
has an M.A.T. from the Bank Street College of Education
and an A.B. from Wheaton College. Her current affiliations
include: co-chair, PEN New England Children's Book Caucus;
corporator, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA; Advisory Board,
the PURPOSE Campaign, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts;
and Board of Advocates, Planned Parenthood Federation of
America.
Robie is
married and the parent of two grown children. She and her
husband, Michael Emberley, reside in Massachusetts. Emberley
attended the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author
and illustrator of Dinosaurs!, The Present, Ruby, and
Welcome Back Sun, as well as the illustrator of Rudolph's
Second Christmas by Robert May. Michael resides in Massachusetts.
CONTACT: Diane Glynn Publicity, tel. 212/689-0002; e-mail:
DGPublcty@aol.com.
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About Robie Harris:
"The
Birds and the Bunnies: Two new books playfully help children begin
their lifelong dialogue with human biology," Colin Harrison,
New York Times Book Review, 11/21/99. |
Press
Release:
It's
So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and
Families
for
children aged 7 and up
"This
thoughtful, innovative, and comprehensive book helps children
with issues that are on their minds anyway--and gives all
of us the language we need to share with them."--T. Berry
Brazelton, M.D., author of Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional
and Behavioral Development.
How
does a baby begin? What makes a baby female or male? Why
are some babies twins? How is a baby born? How is a baby
adopted? Children have always had lots of questions about
reproduction and babies--and about sex and sexuality, too.
But today's children are asking questions about sex and
sexuality at younger and younger ages.
And
they are exposed to more information, and misinformation,
than ever before from television, radio, movies, videos,
and the Internet, as well as from friends and older siblings.
In response to repeated requests from parents, teachers,
librarians, and health professionals for an up-to-date book
about sex and sexuality for children aged 7 and up, author
Robie H. Harris and illustrator Michael Emberley have created
It's So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies,
and Families (Candlewick Press, November 1999; $21.99).
In Harris
and Emberley's acclaimed, award-winning It's Perfectly
Normal (for children aged 10 and up), a bird and bee
reflect the real questions and concerns of children, this
time, younger children. It's So Amazing! is designed
so that a younger child can learn about human biology and
healthy sexuality, also so that parents (a child's primary
educators), as well as school and health professionals,
can answer children's questions.
Comic-book-style
full-color artwork accurately and engagingly illustrates
clear and lively text that is age-appropriate and reflects
an elementary school child's interest in biology and how
things work. This colorful book discusses bodies, pregnancy,
birth, adoption, babies, and all kinds of families. It tells
the story of "the amazing egg trip" and "the amazing sperm
trip," showing when and how an egg travels to the uterus
and how sperm travel and meet an egg.
Actual-size
illustrations follow a single cell's growth month to month
over nine months as it finally becomes a baby--ready to
be born. It's So Amazing! explains in vitro and ultrasound;
shows how twins begin; and describes how a fetus gets food
and air, and how the growing baby kicks and hiccups and
burps inside the uterus--before it is born.
It's
So Amazing! discusses sex and love, including love for
a parent, sibling, friend, or pet. It also discusses heterosexual
and homosexual love. It offers age-appropriate information
on sexual abuse and HIV and AIDS, addressing younger children's
questions and concerns. It recognizes and talks about the
positive and negative feelings younger children have about
a new baby coming into the family, while emphasizing the
uniqueness of each and every child.
In addition
to providing information, It's So Amazing! encourages
respect for differences. Vetted and approved by science,
health, and child development experts, this honest, reassuring,
and comprehensive book offers children a fun and fascinating
scientific format for answering their questions and for
keeping them safe, healthy, and unafraid.
To
receive more information about It's So Amazing! or
to arrange to speak with the author or illustrator, please
contact: Molly Watanabe, Diane Glynn Publicity, tel. 212/689-0002;
e-mail: DGPmolly@aol.com
It's So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies,
and Families by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael
Emberley Publication Date: November 1999/Price: $21.99 ISBN:
0-7636-0051-2/Age 7 and up; Grade 2 and up.
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Part
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SCHOOL CHOICE: WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC KNOW?
GUESTS...
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 Henry
M. Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics
and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Director
of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education,
a non-partisan entity. He is also the David Jacks Professor Emeritus
of Higher Education and Economics at Stanford University where
he joined the faculty in 1968 after serving as a Research Associate
at the Economics Studies Division of the Brookings Institution
in Washington.
He is a specialist in the economics of education and human resources
and has published 14 books and almost 300 articles on these and
related subjects. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced
Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Institute for Advanced
Studies, University of Tel Aviv, a Distinguished Visiting Professor
at Beijing University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage
Foundation.
He has served in Fulbright Professorships at the University of
Barcelona, Autonoma and at the Universidad Metropolitana de Mexico
and as Wei Lun Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of
Hong Kong. In 1997-98 he served as Visiting Professor and Sachs
Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. Levin was the
President of the Evaluation Research Society and a recipient of
its Gunnar Myrdal Prize for Contributions to the Field of Evaluation.
He is the former editor of the Review of Educational Research.
In 1991 the New York Times named him one of nine national leaders
for "Innovation in Education." In 1992 he received the Charles
A. Dana Award for Pioneering Contributions to Education. He has
been a member and President of the Palo Alto (California) School
Board and has been inducted as a Guest Professor at Beijing University.
He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Educational Testing
Service. At present Levin is doing research on accelerated education,
educational reform, educational vouchers and financing educational
equity. For the last thirteen years Levin has dedicated himself
to the establishment and development of the Accelerated Schools
Project, a national school reform project for accelerating the
education of at-risk youngsters. There are presently over 1,000
Accelerated elementary and secondary schools in some 40 states,
Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Hong Kong. Such schools have shown
great promise for raising educational achievement and reducing
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Ms.
Deborah Wadsworth has been Executive Director of Public Agenda
since 1986. She also serves as Executive Vice President and a
member of Public Agenda's Board of Directors. Previously, Ms.
Wadsworth was Executive Director of the Smart Family Foundation
and Program Officer of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation.As
Director of Admissions at the State University of New York (SUNY)
at Purchase from 1974 to 1979, Ms. Wadsworth developed a national
student body for both its College of Letters and Science and its
Professional School of the Arts.