ONE would like to know whether a first reading in the letters of Keats does not generally produce something akin to a severe mental shock. It is a sensation which presently becomes agreeable, being in ...

Regarding “why Johnny might finally learn to read (January 25).” Before you get too excited about a full phonics approach to teaching reading remember that you can spell “fish” “ghoti” (the “gh” in ...

Why letters still matter When we write letters to the editor, what is our intent? Who is the audience? Who reads? Who learns ...

FROM time to time, one of my associates in the Select Order of Old Fogies launches an essay on the decay of letter-writing as an art. He bemoans the disappearance of the letter that rambled for twenty ...

Public concern about murders and other crime and public officials’ and police efforts to deal with safety issues are impressive. A social situation behind these problems demands more attention: The ...

My son will be attending middle school in Reading this coming school year, and I received a letter from the school informing me that he may or may not be eligible for school bus transportation ...

After reading “Council mulls Gaza cease-fire resolution” (Reading Eagle, March 20) I thought I would remind Reading City Council of some pressing matters in the city that would benefit its residents.