Schools using Direct Instruction, a teaching method sometimes criticized for its tightly scripted teaching lessons, are generally seeing gains in student learning, according to a new package of ...

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 ...

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A study about improving rural students’ reading skills published earlier this year has prompted a series of four responses both criticizing and supporting its findings. Three of the four responses ...

A former principal of Aurukun's school in far north Queensland has defended Noel Pearson's controversial teaching model, saying there has been a dramatic improvement since its introduction. Direct ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. KIM LANDERS: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson is defending his controversial 'direct instruction' ...