Gary Stager on Direct Instruction (2004)
The following opinion column from the October issue of District Administration Magazine caused the owner (and Editor-in-Chief) of the magazine to publish an apology in the very next issue. …
Tag: phonics
Schlock and Awe (2007)
Last week, my 7 year-old nephew, (let’s call him) Homer, brought home another stupendous homework assignment. He was required to read a phonics primer to …
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This Article Nearly Ended My Journalism Career (2004)
The following opinion column from the October issue of District Administration Magazine caused the owner (and Editor-in-Chief) of the magazine to publish an apology in …
Mea Culpa (November 2004)
I’m writing this column because I’m embarrassed. Two recent issues of District Administration have carried columns by Gary Stager that have attacked aspects of the …
Shocked! Shocked! Reading First Plagued by Corporate Welfare, Cronyism and Demonization
Originally published on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 in The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate Aside from reducing teachers to script-reading robots and reading to an …
Isn’t this Redundant?
Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — …