Oregon professor Siegfried Engelmann wasn’t your typical education guru. He didn’t peddle feel-good platitudes or promote classroom fads—he treated teaching like a hard science, and he built Direct ...

Children are attending at just below mainstream levels and many are learning faster than the state average. If these trends are sustained, then the serious dysfunction that has characterised remote ...

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 ...

Direct Instruction works. And I’d never send my own child to a school that uses it. That may seem like a paradox. But the picture becomes much clearer once you have a sense of what Direct Instruction ...

A recent guest post here by John Thompson, Neither Teacher-less nor Teacher-proof: Constructivism Meets Guided Instruction, led to a lively discussion in the comments. I asked one reader to expand on ...

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 ...