Lauri Francis asks her 8th graders which terms they don’t understand in the paragraph their classmates just read aloud. “Blind spot,” one says. Ms. Francis writes the two words on the blackboard.

Reading coach Margie Willhite, left, sits in on Kristy Dallaserra's Whittier kindergarten class during a Reading Mastery lesson. Reading Mastery is a program used by the Butte School District that ...

A new report from the What Works Clearinghouse questions the effectiveness of a longstanding, widely used reading program, developed by McGraw-Hill, for students with learning disabilities. In a ...