In its announcement mechanism, Top Tier Evidence, the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy has given another boost to that venerable intervention, the Good Behavior Game (GBG). Top Tier Evidence judged a combination of the GBG and a special academic curriculum to meet nearly all its standards for a “Top Tier” classification, failing only the standard of having been tested in multiple sites.
The GBG was originally reported by Harriet Barrish in a masters thesis while working with Mont Wolf at Kansas University in the 1960s. Others—particularly Shep Kellam at Johns Hopkins University and his colleagues—recognized the utility of the practice and studied it more extensively. Professor Kellam and his team conducted a large-scale study in Baltimore and from that study and follow-up reports about it and others, the Top Tier Evidence folks have drawn their analysis.
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Who? Who? Who?
Some traffic has been arriving from relatively new sources. What are these blogs? Who are the authors?
Liz Ditz says who she is. So does Joanne Jacobs. Ken DeRosa owns up to his posts. It’s easy to m know what Andrew Rotherham writes. Now, I can understand why, under certain circumstances, folks might need anonymity. But, I hope most folks promoting changes in education can speak openly about their views with fear of recrimination. It’s O.K.
Of course, if one simply makes inflammatory comments, then that’s a different matter. Maybe anonymity is advised. (That’s not to say that all anonymous commentators are flamers, just as not all spotted objects are Dalmatians.)
Anyway, anyone know what’s up with these sources?
- http://eduphoria.wordpress.com/
- http://parabola.edublogs.org/
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