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Making the pieces fit? Fat chance!

In which I visit the Big Apple and go large in the shade of that big Tree of Knowledge.

The bigger picture? It's still rocky

Everyone here in the basement believes in evidence based practice. Outside, most people in children's services do not.

Aspiring to be less noticeable

How long before there are designers in Scandinavia, elsewhere in Europe and in the South producing something so radically different for children that America comes running?

The executive director of Blueprints hits all the key notes.

Del Elliott talks standards of evidence, programme fidelity and scaling up, over an all American breakfast.

Going five rounds with the National Center for School engagement

Despite getting hot and bothered over poor concept, unreliable measurement and spelling mistakes, Ernest can't help but be excited by some very powerful data.

More of the same?

Reasons to make the long-haul journey to the Blueprints conference.

Discursive realities

Reporting from the Blueprints Conference in Denver, Michael Little observes how talk about 'real' families can influence the arguments for and against evidence-based practice.

Blueprints in Colorado – and how not to get lost in translation

Clarity, fidelity, rigor – and the lives of real people: getting to grips with the everyday reality of turning a blueprint into a working model.

Back from the SRA (after a Giedd joke)

Dr Jay Giedd of the US National Institute of Mental Health demonstrates how the study of brain development in adolescence is becoming mainstream – and the lessons emerging are all about changeableness and complex interactions between growing intellect and maturing emotions.

Best years of our lives? When we were 14!

Is there a paradox creeping out of the research woodwork? The more prevention science learns from the findings of randomized controlled trials, the more it recognizes the importance of contextual factors hardest to measure, such as the influence of culture and social structure and how they interact.

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