“I can’t tell you the number of kids who have gone from class clown to school captain just because they learned to read,” he tells Inquirer. “We focus on direct instruction when it comes to teaching ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

It was interesting to read “the principles of a maths lesson” as outlined in the article on explicit teaching (“Little school turns its fortunes around”, June 4). It could have been the exact model ...