On September 12, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel to discuss direct and explicit instruction. Zach Groshell, a renowned instructional coach and expert in the field, opened the webinar with his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow John McWhorter offers a scathing critique in this New Republic article of New York City’s approach to bridging the reading gap between black and white children. The ...

The biggest investigation into teaching methods the United States has ever conducted led to no changes in teaching methods. Despite that investigation showing that there was a teaching method that ...

What happens if you stop teaching young children through direct instruction and instead set up purposeful opportunities to play? They could learn just as much when it comes to literacy, numeracy and ...

In successful high-poverty and high-minority schools in California, the predominant teaching method is direct instruction, where student learning is directed by and centered on the teacher. But a ...

The UW-Madison Center for Ethics and Education hosted a guest lecture, “Dialogue Across Divides,” featuring Aaron Yarmel, on ...

Vol. 11, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Direct Instruction: A General Case for Teaching the General Case (NOVEMBER 1988), pp. 318-327 (10 pages) This paper presents the results of two studies of the long-term ...

This study compares 3rd-grade elementary students' gain and retention of science vocabulary over time in two different classes—connected science instruction versus direct instruction. Data analysis ...

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which ...