The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

The “reading wars” that raged in American schools for decades finally seem to be ending. The victor is clear: Phonics is the ...

When children’s hospitals like New Orleans’ Manning Family Children’s Hospital plead for the chance to treat and cure more young patients, lawmakers should pay attention, especially when the solution ...

Charlie Kirk was a good man. I don’t think his assassination was political. I think it was about good vs. evil. People don’t realize we’re in a war between good and evil. Evil can enter our homes ...

LEXINGTON — Lexington High School students are trying to brighten the lives of kids who are going through their darkest days. Letters of Love is a new club at the high school for all students. The ...

I am in support of eliminating the property tax. The bill keeps going up because the already overinflated home values are ever more increasing. I paid taxes when I bought this property; I see it as ...

Six of the music mogul's children wrote letters to the judge who will decide his fate in October Sean "Diddy" Combs' children wrote letters in support of their father who is set to be sentenced next ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ children and several of his ex-girlfriends submitted letters on behalf of his character ahead of his upcoming sentencing. The disgraced mogul, 55, is set to be sentenced on Friday, ...

When a political figure is murdered, we wail, we mourn, we send out tributes on social media, we lower flags to half-mast, and we create a new martyr. On the other hand, the daily mass killings of our ...

The triple killer claims he shares people's "sadness and pain" over the deaths of his three victims but doesn't "have all the answers" DOOMSDAY “prophet” dad Chad Daybell, found guilty of murdering ...

We're tired of watching gun violence become a political identity contest. Our representatives retreat to their corners, each waiting for the other to make the first move — like a middle school dance ...

On Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, I read with stunned amazement the following headline in the Chattanooga Times Free Press: "Counseling cut comes as suicide rate increases." It goes on to say that our ...