Mr Pearson said it was “bittersweet‘’ to see Catholic schools improve reading and mathematics results through the direct instruction method – also known as explicit teaching – after he lobbied for two ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

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 ...

There is currently a significant level of discussion in education journals and the general media about how important and extremely valuable explicit teaching is (from an educational and pedagogical ...

As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The best teaching had to do with ...

For some time Australia’s ‘education state’ has come under fire for its lack of commitment to drive evidence-based teaching practice at scale, but today Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll has ...

A string of academics have come out in force to warn against a push by the NSW Department of Education for explicit teaching across all schools. One goes as far to say explicit teaching is “laden with ...

Mr Pearson said the Australian Education Union “could not be more against the interests of children’’. “They are oblivious, or completely blind, to the evidence about what’s effective in education, ...