The Engineering Society of Detroit, the oldest and largest engineering association in the U.S., has just released the report from its recent STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Symposium. One of the recommendations for combating the lack of development in early reading and math skills is utilzing approaches such as Direct Instruction: "Lack of the development of early reading and math skills is one of the root causes of our the persistently low testing proficiency of our early and middle school students. Curriculum methodologies such as, but not limited to, research-validated programs like Reading Mastery, Corrective Reading, Connecting Math Concepts, and other “Direct Instruction” programs, were identified as valuable pedagogical tools to reverse this decline. "

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