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Too Good for Violence promotes character values, social-emotional skills, and healthy beliefs of elementary and middle school students. The program includes seven lessons per grade level for elementary school (K–5) and nine lessons per grade level for middle school (6–8). All lessons are scripted and engage students through role-playing and cooperative learning games, small group activities, and classroom discussions. Students are encouraged to apply these skills to different contexts. Too Good for Violence also includes optional parental and community involvement elements. Two related programs are addressed in the intervention reports on Too Good for Drugs and Violence (high school) and Too Good for Drugs™ (K–8).
One study of Too Good for Violence met the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards. This study included almost 1,000 students attending 10 schools in a large school district in Florida. The study authors examined results on students’ behavior and knowledge, attitudes, and values.1
Too Good for Violence was found to have potentially positive effects on students’ behavior and knowledge, attitudes, and values.
| Behavior | Knowledge, attitudes, and values | Academic achievement | |
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| Rating of effectiveness | Potentially positive effects | Potentially positive effects | Not reported |
| Improvement index2 | Average: +18 percentile points Range: +18 percentile points |
Average: +16 percentile points Range: +16 percentile points |
Not reported |
|Institute of Education Sciences
Character Education