Correction to: Dissemination of Direct Instruction: Ponder These while Pursuing That.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s40614-021-00285-z.].

Dissemination of Direct Instruction: Ponder These while Pursuing That.

We happy few but why so few is a question initially posed by Skinner and subsequently posed by many members of the behavior-analytic community, and advocates for Direct Instruction (DI) are no exception. On the contrary, the limited extent to which DI has been adopted by the educational community is an abiding source of frustration for DI devotees. This article contains little information about DI, which parallels the amount its author has to share.

There is no such thing as a bad boy: The Circumstances View of problem behavior.

From the beginning of recorded time human beings have assigned blame to persons who misbehave. The first prominent person to make an alternative case was Father Edward J. Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, who proclaimed there was "no such thing as a bad boy, only bad environment, bad modeling, and bad teaching" (Oursler & Oursler, 1949, p.

Come on in, the Water is Fine: Achieving Mainstream Relevance through Integration with Primary Medical Care.

Behavior analysis is a generic science, and Skinner's vision for it was that it would become a mainstream force, relevant for most if not all human concerns, major and minor. Clearly his vision has not been realized. Determining why this is the case would require a complex multifactorial analysis.