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 ...

And that one – “Direct Instruction” – a method that worked, all the others not doing so consistently, was the one that used old-fashioned and even archaic teaching methods.

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 ...

Join AEI’s Robert Pondiscio, instructional coach Zach Groshell, and the National Institute for Direct Instruction’s Kurt Engelmann for a conversation on the merits of direct or explicit ...

Ten years ago, Gildo Rey Elementary was one of the top-scoring public elementary schools in Washington state, but when they changed their teaching methods their academic scores decreased.