Thursday, April 9, 2009

Topic: Anti-Drug Education

10-second review: What’s wrong with programs designed to discourage teens from taking drugs? Teens say that drugs and alcohol are everywhere, and drug education efforts, for the most part, are a joke. A ninth-grader said, “People do their homework while the health teachers are telling you about the dangers of drugs and the assemblies are going on.”

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (September 13, 1995), A1/A9.

Comment: I wonder if basic teaching techniques like the directed reading assignment are being used by these instructors. Do they just turn on the videotape without an interesting introduction and without follow up? I'm just wondering. Sounds that way. RayS.

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