Direct Instruction programs have long drawn criticism from educators who say they limit teacher autonomy. But surveys suggest ...
In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...
In a poor, Black neighborhood in Houston, principal Thaddeus Lott transforms a struggling elementary school with Direct Instruction. Soon, his students are outperforming students at much wealthier ...
There are two reasons why Odell Hallmon's testimony was so essential to the state's case against Curtis Flowers. IN THE DARK Episode 6: Punishment The first is that Hallmon's statement — that Curtis ...
The state of Maine has been living large when it comes to a popular federal transportation grant. In December, the state was awarded money from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the 14th time ...
With state and federal governments looking to restrict vaping, the nation's largest e-cigarette maker pushed back with a multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign. As President Trump, the U.S. Food and ...
In September 2021, a 4-year-old girl’s babysitter caught her touching another child inappropriately. “I asked her why she was doing that,” the babysitter texted the girl’s mother, “and she told me ...
Differentiating Between Difficult-to-remediate and Readily Remediated Poor Readers (Journal of Learning Disabilities, May-June 2000) Do Textbooks Used in University Reading Education Courses Conform ...
For years, Utah has been the epicenter of the nation’s so-called troubled-teen industry. Since 2015 some 20,000 kids have been sent to programs in Utah that cater to parents and state agencies ...
Elementary schools are racing to replace their reading curricula as part of a national movement to implement teaching methods based in cognitive science. But figuring out which materials measure up is ...
Rather than starting with a small geographical circle and thoroughly searching every home near the abduction site in St. Joseph, investigators allowed the case to go big quickly. Investigators failed ...