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

In the 1960s, a man named Siegfried “Zig” Engelmann set out to answer a question about how kids learn: How many times does a child need to be exposed to something before they remember it? Engelmann ...

Sold a Story is back with a new season that goes beyond reading. Emily Hanford explores an approach to teaching that's been largely rejected by the education system — despite decades of evidence that ...

At an experimental preschool in Illinois, Zig Engelmann and his colleagues begin turning his ideas into a classroom teaching method. Along the way, they make a series of discoveries about effective ...

Zig Engelmann gets the chance of a lifetime: Put Direct Instruction to the test in one of the largest education experiments ever conducted. The results could have changed the direction of American ...