The infant science of effective program implementation finds a useful analogy in the culinary arts: it's often not what you cook but how you cook it that matters.

Classroom inquiries in West Virginia about the likely cause of the death of houseplants have shed a little light on the characteristics of what makes for more or less successful peer collaboration and pairing.

Do we need more early intervention programs or more effective implementation of the ones that have been shown to work? UK research has provided a launchpad for a new experimental maths recovery initiative; US research suggests proven models may already be available off the peg.

The discovery by London University researchers of a connection between conduct disorders in childhood and early death may become the cornerstone of the justification for new developmental research, says leading US child psychiatrist Adrian Angold.

Interest in zero tolerance and broken windows theory the idea that minor environmental damage and neglect create a micro-climate that encourages more serious criminality is revived by surveillance work in the Netherlands and a study of UK schools.

No checks tied in a pink ribbon, no favors, no handouts UK parliamentarian Graham Allen tells the Treasury he wants long-term investment in early intervention programs in Britain to be agreed on the basis of pay-back forecasts powerful enough to convince the hardest-faced capitalist in the toughest financial market".