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Talking Sense with The Education of Shelby Knox’s Creators and Star
An interview with Shelby Knox, Rose Rosen­blatt, Marion Lipschultz by Rebecca Onion, appeared in issue Truth & Consequences; published in 2005; filed under Film; tagged abstinence, education, religious right, Republican, sex, sex education, Shelby Knox, Sundance.

Everything’s bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes, and that may be truest in the realm of sex-education controversy. Texas, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, has also been at the forefront of abstinence-only education in public schools since 1995, when then-governor George W. Bush signed the curriculum into law.

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