Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10298494 | Evaluation and Program Planning | 2005 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Some school districts ignore the evidence and continue to offer D.A.R.E. In our study of 16 school districts, we found two persuasive reasons: (1) Evaluations generally measure drug use as the main outcome, but school officials are skeptical that any low-input short-term program like D.A.R.E. can change adolescents' drug-taking behavior. (2) Evaluations often do not often report relationships between cops and kids. Improvement in these relationships is a main reason for many districts' continued implementation of D.A.R.E. Districts also mention other understandable although more problematic rationales for keeping D.A.R.E.
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Authors
Sarah Birkeland, Erin Murphy-Graham, Carol Weiss,