You’d think that since Socrates, Plato and Aristotle sat together under the legendary plane tree in Athens around 430 BC, the debate about whether some form of ...

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 ...

“A teacher should be a guide on the side rather than a sage on the stage.” This common saying is one of the most useless pieces of advice that teachers receive from their education professors. Many ...

In a study with 112 third- and fourth-grade children, we measured the relative effectiveness of discovery learning and direct instruction at two points in the learning process: (a) during the initial ...

Teachers are reporting that a Direct Instruction literacy program, championed by Indigenous leader Noel Pearson, is having a dramatic impact in the Pilbara. "Last Thursday afternoon we were practising ...