The study, put out recently by the University of South Australia and the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, found ...
Direct instruction 'Flexible Literacy' program a costly failure: researchers
A $30 million direct instruction program aimed at boosting literacy results in very remote schools has failed, according to a new study.
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Osborne said that the Flexible Literacy program has not only failed to achieve its goals, but that it has demonstrated potential harm in very remote schools.
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