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• About Me
• Pic o' the Month Watercolors by Zig
• A Night of Frost A novel written by Zig in the 1950s [pdf] [posted 11/16/07] • Prologue
• New D.I.
"Socrates and Education: Bussing" By Siegfried Engelmann
"Socrates on Reading Mastery" By Siegfried Engelmann
"Socrates on Chicago's Failure" By Siegfried Engelmann
"Socrates on Program Adoptions" By Siegfried Engelmann
"Socrates on Gold Standard Experiments" By Siegfried Engelmann
Give Your Child a Superior Mind By Siegfried and Therese Engelmann Originally published 1966
• Prologue
Chapter 5 of Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System, Follow Through Evaluation
• Rubric for Identifying Authentic DI Programs [posted 2/07/06] • Prologue
• Low Performers' Manual [pdf] • Prologue
• Comparative Preschool Study: High and Low Socioeconomic Preschoolers Learning Advanced Cognitive Skills [pdf] • Prologue
• Improving Reading Rate of Low Performers [pdf] [posted 7/9/08]
• The Curriculum as the Cause of Failure [posted 2/24/08] • Prologue
• Advocacy for Children [posted 4/26/06] • Prologue
• How Scientific is Reading First? [posted1/25/06]
• Litmus Test for Urban School Districts
• Zig's Commentary on Bersin's Article: "Making Schools Productive"
• Science vs. Basic Education Research [pdf] • Prologue
• CSSP Acceptance Speech [pdf]
• Professional Standards in Education • Prologue
• The Dalmatian and Its Spots: Why Research-based Recommendations Fail Logic 101 • Prologue
• Ed Week: Letter to Baron Defending "The Pet Goat"
• District-Based Teacher Certification Model [pdf] • Prologue
• Hirsch's Cargo Cults Revisited • Prologue
• Education's Disregard for At-Risk Students • Prologue
• Oregon's Future: Reading First = Kids First
• About Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning
• Student-Program Alignment and Teaching to Mastery [pdf]
• RAND: Impediments to Scaling Up Effective Comprehensive School Reform Models [pdf] • Prologue
Part 2: Continuous Consonants
Part 3: Non-Continous Consonants, Voiced and Unvoiced Counterparts
Part 4: Vowel Sounds
Part 5: How to Present Tasks
Part 6: Basic (7-Step) Corrections
Part 7: Abbreviating the 7-Step Procedure and Correcting Vowels
Part 8: Correction Procedures Review, Timing, and Correcting Consonant Clusters
Part 9: Rate, More Consonant Blends, Correcting Words in Sentences
Part 10: More Work on Sentences and Working with Students Who Have Some English
Part 11: More Work with Students Who Have Some English
Part 12: Goals, Scheduling, and Grouping
Part 13: The Closing
Questions and Answers About Teaching English