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Finding What Works
The Report to Delay Teenage Sexual Activity
By Kelly Burgess
PSI was merely one of a handful of curriculums evaluated in the report. Of the others, there were differing levels of success, including cases where the evaluation group actually reported more sexual activity than the control groups. So while they may not have found one "magic bullet" that will definitely change teens' propensity to have sex, studies of this type certainly help create a model for what does work by taking the successful components and eliminating those that weren't successful. 
One important thing they did learn, says Bill Albert, national campaign director of communications for the Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, is that birth control education is a big part of keeping the teen pregnancy rate down. "There is growing evidence that using programs that work either to delay the onset of sexual activity or to encourage sexually active teens to use contraception definitely leads to a decrease in teen pregnancies," says Albert. "In recent years, teen pregnancy and birth rates have declined dramatically, and we attribute this to a combination of less sex and more contraception."
However, as Albert makes clear, just because kids are getting information about contraceptives doesn't mean they're getting permission to be sexually active, either. On the contrary, an
