Teach Effectively!

Linda Seebach, an editorial writer for the Rocky Mountain News, published a column recounting the story of Zig Engelmann’s book, The Outrage of Project Follow Through: 5 Million Failed Kids Later. Here’s her lead.

I’ve been reading one of the most important education books you’ll likely never have a chance to read. It’s by Siegfried Engelmann, and it’s about Direct Instruction, the structured curriculum he began to develop in the early 1960s, how DI participated in a federal study called Project Follow Through, and how the results of that study - which demonstrated that DI produced superior outcomes for at-risk children - were essentially disappeared from the educational landscape by hostile educators and bureaucrats.

It’s good to see that some of the mainstream press is picking up this story. Kudos to Ms. Seebach. Link to her column.