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A national gun violence-prevention organization last week introduced a new curriculum for grades pre-K through 12 and announced its implementation in five major school districts.

New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., San Diego, and Dade County, Fla., have agreed to use the "Straight Talk About Risks,'' or STAR, curriculum beginning this spring.

Written by the Washington-based Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, a national education and lobbying group, STAR is a revised version of an earlier curriculum called "Kids + Guns: A Deadly Equation.'' That program was piloted starting in 1989 in Dade County, the...

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