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 ...

Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne said the method, used at the indigenous settlement of Aurukun on Cape York, should be rolled out in disadvantaged communities across the country because it ...

One of the most vigorous continuing debates in elementary education is over which teaching method produces the best results. Is it teacher-directed learning, where the teacher conveys knowledge to his ...

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 ...

A CONTROVERSIAL teaching method used in 21 remote NT schools has copped some of the blame for rioting in the Cape York community of Aurukun Direct instruction is a highly structured method of teaching ...

The Australian’s readers have appreciated his intelligent writing for years. Turning his attention to the malaise afflicting Australian schooling, which he is well qualified to do, Mr Pearson has ...

Hartford’s rock-bottom scores on state tests have schools desperate for new ways to teach reading. As new School Superintendent Anthony S. Amato begins his own push for a reading revolution, The ...

THE State Government has listened to a determined Aurukun Council, announcing a review of the Direct Instruction teaching method used at the town’s school. In a move that has already prompted ...