The What Works Clearing House (About [them] link) has published their findings on the Open Court Reading Program saying that there is no evidence to support or not support its effectiveness in improving student achievement due to variables in control groups and the addition of other interventions in Open Court schools:

No studies of Open Court Reading© that fall within the scope of the Beginning Reading review meet WWC evidence standards. The lack of studies meeting WWC evidence standards means that, at this time, the WWC is unable to draw any conclusions based on research about the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of Open Court Reading©.

See the full text of what they have reported here.

For those of us in the classroom we can walk around a be bitter like these teachers or we can continue to find ways to make our teaching work as effectively as possible.

Thank you to Larry Ferlazzo for link to article and Susan Ohanian for link to video.