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Do you dare?
Picture taken from the office of the Fayette County prosecutor in Lexington, Kentucky. www.http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/d_a_r_e.htm (accessed April 3, 2007).
Wysong, Earl, Aniskiewicz, Richard, Wright, David. 1994. "Truth and DARE: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation and as Symbolic Politics". Journal of Social Problems. Vol. 41, No. 3. p. 448-472. www.jstor.org (accessed April 3, 2007).
Every child who attended a public school from the late 1980's up until the present most likely knows both this mascot and this program in great detail. Most all students who have been in the public education system in the last fifteen years can remember the police officer who came to talk with them concerning the dangers of drug use. The authors of the article listed above go into great detail in thier research to discover the truth concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of the DARE program. What the authors discovered is that this program like so many before it was a utter disaster and in no manner correlated to any decrease in the number of youths experimenting with illegal substances. In fact, the creators of the DARE program launched a short-term evaluation of the program after only four weeks of operation and concluded that it produced very little, if any anti-drug effects among the participating youth.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education
-Shannon Hughes
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Do you dare?
Picture taken from the office of the Fayette County prosecutor in Lexington, Kentucky. www.http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/d_a_r_e.htm (accessed April 3, 2007).
Wysong, Earl, Aniskiewicz, Richard, Wright, David. 1994. "Truth and DARE: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation and as Symbolic Politics". Journal of Social Problems. Vol. 41, No. 3. p. 448-472. www.jstor.org (accessed April 3, 2007).
Every child who attended a public school from the late 1980's up until the present most likely knows both this mascot and this program in great detail. Most all students who have been in the public education system in the last fifteen years can remember the police officer who came to talk with them concerning the dangers of drug use. The authors of the article listed above go into great detail in thier research to discover the truth concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of the DARE program. What the authors discovered is that this program like so many before it was a utter disaster and in no manner correlated to any decrease in the number of youths experimenting with illegal substances. In fact, the creators of the DARE program launched a short-term evaluation of the program after only four weeks of operation and concluded that it produced very little, if any anti-drug effects among the participating youth.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education
-Shannon Hughes
-