Among the lauded educational theorists of the 20th century — John Dewey, Jean Piaget, Paolo Friere and Lev Vygotsky — Engelmann was the greatest, if the most controversial. His rich educational legacy ...

Mayor Richard M. Daley’s push to improve reading scores by using “direct instruction”–a method in which teachers follow a script for classroom interaction–is likely to “go down in flames” unless ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A mentor. An innovator. A longtime influencer of education worldwide, and a colossus of breakthrough, tendentious teaching methods whose roots began right here in Eugene. If you ...

EUGENE — A mentor. An innovator. A longtime influencer of education worldwide. The creator of one of very few research-proven methods of teaching children to read. Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann, a ...

“Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” is the current No. 2 bestselling nonfiction book on Amazon.com. The book was published in 1986. No. That’s not a typo. 1986. My immediate question was ...

Oregon professor Siegfried Engelmann wasn’t your typical education guru. He didn’t peddle feel-good platitudes or promote classroom fads—he treated teaching like a hard science, and he built Direct ...

IN A CITY weary of fad-of-the-month education experiments, there is something comforting about the return of the disciplined curriculum. This September, six Baltimore schools will begin teaching ...