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

In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, two of the biggest names in literacy education, are breaking their silence in the debate over how best to teach kids to read, responding to criticism that their ideas ...

Phillipa Munari started antidepressants in 2003. Her doctor recommended one, she said, after she complained of feeling tired. She didn’t think it helped, but she kept taking it anyway. When she ...

Five years ago, Sequel Youth & Family Services ran a chain of treatment programs that took in and tried to help troubled kids from all over the United States. It was valued by investors at more than ...

In October 2015, almost 20 years after the murders at Tardy Furniture, one of Curtis Flowers' lawyers was paging through his case file, when she saw a familiar face. IN THE DARK Episode 10: Discovery ...