Last week I said that Baltimore's City Springs Elementary School has successfully used Direct Instruction, a program Montgomery County is putting into its high-poverty elementary schools. I based ...

And that one – “Direct Instruction” – a method that worked, all the others not doing so consistently, was the one that used old-fashioned and even archaic teaching methods.

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.

Join AEI’s Robert Pondiscio, instructional coach Zach Groshell, and the National Institute for Direct Instruction’s Kurt Engelmann for a conversation on the merits of direct or explicit ...