Your Nov. 2 editorial, “When the ‘best’ don’t read books,” was right on. When I was in high school in the late 1950s, students were given a list of books to choose to read from during Christmas, ...

To the editor: “English is a phonetic language,” states a letter writer who taught reading — but, I must add, only to a point. Just a brief look at the previous sentence will show numerous exceptions ...