Direct Instruction has something most education programs don’t: decades of research demonstrating its effectiveness.

Direct Instruction programs have long drawn criticism from educators who say they limit teacher autonomy. But surveys suggest ...

Direct Instruction has decades of research behind it, but what makes it work? We dig into Zig Engelmann’s theory of instruction, what cognitive science reveals about how children learn and what ...

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 ...

This story — the second in a series on alleged voter suppression in Georgia — was reported in collaboration with WABE in Atlanta. On Election Day 2018, James Baiye II drove to Lucerne Baptist Church ...

Buildings burned all around Leeta Song’s family business in the nights after George Floyd’s murder. Arson and looting crippled the Lake Street commercial district, but Song hoped her neighbors would ...

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 ...

Direct Instruction programs have long drawn criticism from educators who say they limit teacher autonomy. But surveys suggest that teachers who use the programs tend to view Direct Instruction ...

In the early morning hours of August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, his half-brother, J.W. Milam, and perhaps several other people, barged into the Leflore County home of a black sharecropper named Moses ...

Ernest Houle grew up in Leominster, a working-class city in central Massachusetts. His two older brothers had gone to the local vocational high school, so he did too. He thought he would do better ...