The issue: Sex equity and sexuality in education

Neither sex equity nor sexuality are new topics to educators, but relatively little attention has been given to their combination. The contributors to this issue of the Peabody Journal of Education believe that it is necessary for educators to increase their understanding of ways that sex education can be sex equitable and ways that sexuality contributes to sex inequities in general education. There is substantial evidence that sex equity and sex education experts have gone their separate ways and generally either ignored or distanced themselves from each other. Most sex educators in the United States