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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1970s, Susie Andrist was on the precipice of changing the world. At least that’s what she thought. She and her colleagues had spent a decade traveling all over the United States teaching ...

Utah officials are shutting down Provo Canyon School’s girls program — one of the state’s most notorious teen treatment programs, which has been plagued by abuse allegations. The action came after the ...

Ryan Riggs died alone by a chain link fence in the backyard of the group home that was paid to take care of him. Disabled by a traumatic brain injury after crashing his motorcycle in 2024, the 44-year ...

Across Alaska’s coastline, from the Indigenous communities of Bristol Bay to the Tlingit and Haida villages of the panhandle, rural harbors that once bustled with commercial fishing boats now sit ...

Officer Jessica Heinzen heard the call come in from Brooklyn Park dispatch about a man “likely on drugs” threatening his roommates. She recognized the man’s name and the address of the group home ...

The choices you make as a teenager can shape the rest of your life. If you take high school classes for college credit, you’re more likely to enroll at a university. If you take at least 12 credits of ...

When voters elected Donald Trump in November, most people who worked at the U.S. Department of Education weren’t scared for their jobs. They had been through a Trump presidency before, and they hadn’t ...

Decades of research show that a school reform program called Success for All is one of the most effective ways to teach reading to kids — especially struggling students. It helped one of the poorest ...