Calandar 2008

• Home

Non-DI

pic_o_month.htm

• 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

Abridged

Machinations of What Works Clearinghouse

Chapter 5 of Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System,
Follow Through Evaluation

• Contents & Foreword
• Prologue
• For Readers Not Familiar with Project Follow Through

DI Tomes

• 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

DI Articles, etc. by Zig

• 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

2008 Year in Review

Cover
Misty spring day near Veneta, Oregon

January Mountains in the Washington Cascades	Febuary Sunset at Bandon, Oregon	March Hell's Canyon on the Oregon-Idaho border
April Scene along the Little Fall Creek near Eugene, Oregon	May Mt. Washington in the Oregon Cascades	June Sahalie Falls, about 65 miles east of Eugene
July Swing in waiting, near Crow, Oregon	August Crater Lake at Dusk	September West Roseburg Creek, Montana
October Afternoon fog and sunshine near Crow, Oregon	November Rogue River near Grants Pass, Oregon	December Natural Bridge, Southern Oregon Coast