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Too Good for Drugs and Violence is designed to promote high school students’ prosocial skills, positive character traits, and violence- and drug-free norms. The curriculum consists of 14 core lessons and an additional 12 lessons that can be infused into other subject areas (such as English, science, and social studies). Students engage in role-play and cooperative learning activities and are encouraged to apply the skills to different contexts.
The program includes optional family and community involvement components that may or may have not be implemented as part of the program evaluated. Two related programs are addressed in the intervention reports on Too Good for Violence (K–8) and Too Good for Drugs™ (K–8).
Two studies of Too Good for Drugs and Violence met the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards. These studies, which included nearly 700 students attending six high schools in Florida, examined results on students’ knowledge, attitudes, and values.1
Too Good for Drugs and Violence was found to have positive effects on students’ knowledge, attitudes, and values.
| Behavior | Knowledge, attitudes, and values | Academic achievement | |
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| Rating of effectiveness | Not reported | Positive effects | Not reported |
| Improvement index2 | Not reported | Average: +16 percentile points Range: +5 to +21 percentile points |
Not reported |
|Institute of Education Sciences
Character Education