Experience and research point to the need for teachers to strike a balance between direct instruction of facts and developing ...
A study on reading instruction in two Wisconsin districts suggests that a widely used skills-based program may not be effective in raising the achievement of children in urban schools. Conducted by ...
Schools using Direct Instruction, a teaching method sometimes criticized for its tightly scripted teaching lessons, are generally seeing gains in student learning, according to a new package of ...
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Last week I said that Baltimore's City Springs Elementary School has successfully used Direct Instruction, a program Montgomery County is putting into its high-poverty elementary schools. I based my ...
Aurukun’s Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy campus focuses on the five C’s: Class (literacy and numeracy), Club (sport and the arts), Culture (traditional language), Community (getting parents ...
Zachary Stewart, an eighth-grader at Academy Prep in St. Peters- burg, had difficulty reading at Melrose Elementary. He now excels.  The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the ...
In northeast Western Australia this week to see the highly scripted method in classrooms outside Cape York for the first time, Mr Pearson declared there was a moral imperative in the program’s ...