"Instead of asking why a child is failing, we need to ask why the teaching method is failing the child, " she said.

BBC: Debate on literacy

In both cities Balanced Literacy became the only approved teaching method.

FORBES: Thoughts on ‘The Death and Life of the Great American School System’ (Part One)

In 1920, HBS innovated the case method of research and teaching where students literally sink or swim entirely on the basis of their ability to persuade peers that their analysis and recommended course of action is the right one for the company in question.

FORBES: HBS Alumni In The Global Economy

When trying to find out if something will work - be it a new policy, a new drug, a new teaching method - the gold standard of evidence is what comes out of a properly conducted random controlled trial.

BBC: NEWS | Programmes | More Or Less | The truth behind statistics

This alternative method of teaching the under sevens has been widely praised.

BBC: The literacy challenge facing Wales

The MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School have developed training courses covering topics such as course design, teaching techniques and the case study method.

CNN: Schools look to expand resources

Illiterate Idea One of the goofiest, most destructive educational fads of recent times has been the so-called Whole Language method of teaching kids to read.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Directed discovery teaching and critical thinking: Tutors use the question and answer method to provoke learners into critical thinking, reflection and debate.

UNESCO: Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA)

The method, which is not without its critics in the teaching profession, assesses each child and gives them suitable exercises to be repeated until they are successful and move on to harder sums.

BBC: Maths classes 'overcrowded'

When he was appointed chief instructor for the tri-services diving school, he adopted BSAC's method of teaching.

BBC: Diver John Smith