A postal clerk who can’t read cursive, millions of misread letters and a “lost generation” of students: Michael Reagan links failing schools to your missing Christmas mail.

As time goes by, it seems like there is less and less of a need to write things down by hand. Letters are no longer necessary ...

Here’s a true Christmas story starring the U.S. Postal Service and Santa Claus. Earlier this week, my wife Colleen went to ...

The staff of the Martha Canfield Memorial Free Library invites the public to an in-person talk with Tim Brookes, author of ...

As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...

Here’s a true Christmas story starring the U.S. Postal Service and Santa Claus. Earlier this week, my wife Colleen went to our local post office in Los Angeles to mail a present to her relatives ...

Every generation has their own skills that help them get through life. Unfortunately, there are certain everyday skills kids ...

North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore is officially back open and in a new location. The owner of ...

Pyrex dishes are a popular collectible that can fetch high prices in the vintage market, and these colors and patterns are ...

Forget cursive. Statistically, given the sad state of our government schools, he’s lucky he can read at all. As is well known, and has been reported in the media for decades, more than half of all ...

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

Dear Heloise: I sympathize to some extent with the writer in a recent column of yours lamented how doctor’s offices will say ...