You can teach an adult to read Spanish in six weeks because the language has 27 letters and 29 sounds. English has 26 letters ...

Re: “Rainbow steps stay, and Dallas keeps its soul — Landmark Commission had no choice but to say ‘Amen’ to Oak Lawn UMC,“ by Robert Wilonsky, Wednesday Opinion. When power demanded that Texas cities ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The City of Richmond is taking a major step toward lead-free water outreach by mailing more than 73,000 service line notification letters to residents. According to a Dec. 30 ...

According to the phonological deficit hypothesis, the core deficit in dyslexia relates to degraded speech sound representations which hamper the acquisition and automation of letter - speech sound (LS ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Teens and young adults killing their own parents; six homicides were reported in 2025 involving teens or young adults allegedly killing a parent on the First Coast. The first ...

Seventy-one years ago, I walked into my Chapman School fourth-grade classroom and met the most consequential teacher I would ever have, Mrs. Ganno. She soon realized I was a struggling reader and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All six episodes of Taylor Swift’s Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era are now available to stream. In the sixth and final ...

When we write letters to the editor, what is our intent? Who is the audience? Who reads? Who learns something and changes their mind? I recently heard that fewer than 2% of people under 50 read a ...

Across the country, America’s mental health system is buckling under the weight of growing need and shrinking support. A new national poll from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Ipsos ...

Mary wrote the letter in French around 2 a.m. on the day of her execution. National Library of Scotland On the morning of February 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, knelt at an execution block in the ...

Dave Ramsey recommends an 8% annual withdrawal rate for retirees who invest 100% in stocks. A 100% stock allocation in retirement creates outsized risk during market downturns with limited recovery ...

We seem to be running into cost problems with the redevelopment of our mall. The buildings are viable, only 30 years or less of age. I sat on the Concord Chamber of Commerce planning committee in ...