Word: curriculum
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...three-year, $300,000 study has concluded that the effect of DARE's core curriculum -- conducted by specially trained local police officers in 17 weekly, 45-to-60-min. sessions for fifth- and sixth-grade students -- is statistically insignificant in preventing drug use among that group. Resources might be better spent on longer-term, more interactive programs. The study was conducted by the Research Triangle Institute in Durham, North Carolina, and commissioned by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice...
...provocative conclusion not warranted by the study." R.T.I., however, stands by its conclusions, adding that it looked at fifth- and sixth-graders exactly because that has been DARE's target group. Said R.T.I. researcher Susan Ennett: "Unless there's some sort of booster session that reinforces the original curriculum, the effects of most drug-use-prevention programs decay rather than increase with time." Ray, 18, who came through the DARE program in Los Angeles, is a good case in point. He smokes pot. "Mostly everyone I know who was in DARE back with me are doing the same thing...
According to the publication, the fifth-place finish reflects graduates' dissatisfaction with a static curriculum and unresponsive administration...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School surged from fourth in 1992 to number one, unseating three-time champion Kellogg School at Northwestern University with what Business Week called the "most dramatic curriculum changes at any elite school...
Echoing complaints made by teachers and professors last year, the report calls for Expos to work more closely with the rest of the curriculum...