Direct Instruction Works

http://teacheffectively.com/2009/12/21/go-for-di-and-sfa/#more-1118

Basically, a summary of research that says "Direct INstruction Works."

Of course, those with their hearts and/or wallets in other camps will search until they find a way to consider this dismissable. Sometimes it's because "well, numbers just don't tell the whole story!" They don't -- but that doesn't mean to ignore the story they tell.

(And sometimes the rest of the story is important, too... if you go to the LM_NET archives and search for SFA you'll see good, bad and ugly. Shoving anything down peoples' throats is a bad idea. Oh, and then the politics with the "research based" programs -- corruption doesn't help your arguments, either. And I'm pretty sure the name the whole language folks will shrug and say "of course that's what *Slavin* will say.")