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The Social and
Character Development (SACD) Research Program is a three-year multi-site
randomized field trial that examines the efficacy of school-based programs
designed to promote positive social and character development, increase prosocial behavior, and reduce problem behavior in elementary
schoolchildren. The U.S. Department of Education’s
Institute of Education
Sciences (IES), in collaboration with the
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), initiated the SACD research program in 2003. IES awarded grants
to seven research institutions and a contract to
Mathematica Policy
Research, Inc. to work in partnership with IES and NCIPC on the
implementation and evaluation of seven school-wide social and character
development programs. The multi-site evaluation tracks the development of a 3rd
grade cohort of children from Fall 2004 to Spring 2007 in 96 schools across
six states.
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