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 ...

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 ...

Guinevere Eden: The last 15 years or so in neuroscience research have uncovered this really interesting idea about how our brain learns to read. Reading is not a natural skill. We use brain areas that ...

Once offshore oil platforms drain their wells, the government has the power to force the companies that own them to tear the structures down. But the owners can put off that costly process using a ...

The first and third Tuesday of every month, Lola and Archie Flowers make the two-and-a-half hour round trip to see their son. On April 3, they woke up early, and by 7 a.m. they were driving west from ...

Government officials across the Midwest face pressure to address high levels of nitrate pollution in water, which researchers have linked to illnesses including cancer, birth defects and thyroid ...