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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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