Character Education Overview 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. Research 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. Effectiveness Too Good for Violence was found to have potentially positive effects on students behavior and knowledge, attitudes, and values.   Reading Intervention Overview Sound Partners (Vadasy et al., 2004) is a phonics-based tutoring program that provides supplemental reading instruction to elementary school students grades K-3 with below average reading skills. The program is designed specifically for use by tutors with minimal training and experience. Instruction emphasizes letter-sound correspondences, phoneme blending, decoding and encoding phonetically regular words, and reading irregular high-frequency words, with oral reading to practice applying phonics skills in text. The program consists of a set of scripted lessons in alphabetic and phonics skills and uses Bob Books beginning reading series as one of the primary texts for oral reading practice. The tutoring can be provided as a pull-out or after-school program, as well as by parents who home school their children. Research Four studies of Sound Partners that fall within the scope of the Beginning Reading review protocol meet What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards, and three studies meet WWC evidence standards with reservations. The seven studies included 442 students from kindergarten and first grade in urban schools in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. Based on these seven studies, the WWC considers the extent of evidence for Sound Partners on beginning readers to be medium to large for alphabetic, fluency, and comprehension and small for general reading achievement. Effectiveness Sound Partners was found to have positive effects on alphabetic, fluency, and comprehension and no discernible effects on general reading achievement on beginning readers.    Math Program Overview Program Description Everyday Mathematics, published by Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, is a core curriculum for students in prekindergarten through grade 6. At each grade level, the Everyday Mathematics curriculum provides students with multiple opportunities to learn concepts and practice skills. Across grade levels, concepts are reviewed and extended in varying instructional contexts. The distinguishing features of Everyday Mathematics are its focus on real-life problem solving, student communication of mathematical thinking, and appropriate use of technology. This curriculum also emphasizes balancing different types of instruction (including collaborative learning), using various methods for skills practice, and fostering parent involvement in student learning. Research One study of Everyday Mathematics that falls within the scope of the Elementary School Math review protocol meets What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards with reservations. The study included 3,436 elementary students in third through fifth grades in a large urban school district in Texas. The district used the first edition of Everyday Mathematics. Based on this study, the WWC considers the extent of evidence for Everyday Mathematics on elementary students to be small for math achievement. Effectiveness Everyday Mathematics was found to have potentially positive effects on math achievement for elementary students.