Missouri lawmakers are proposing legislation that would require students through fifth grade to complete most assignments ...

Almost every syllabus, teacher, and standardized test requires a No. 2 pencil. Are there other choices out there? Indeed there are. Pencil makers manufacture Nos. 1, 2, 2.5, 3, and 4 pencils—and ...

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From Pencils You Should Know: A History of the Ultimate Writing Utensil in 75 Anecdotes by Caroline Weaver (published by Chronicle Books 2020, all images courtesy Chronicle Books) I hadn’t thought of ...

With the SAT and ACT testing season about to kick into high gear, I poked around on the Internet to find about more about pencils. Here are 10 facts about pencils that you probably didn't know. 1.

If you ever asked me to define what a pencil is, I might say “Well, it’s a writing or drawing tool with a stick of graphite ...

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Last Friday Consumer Reports posted a video of some iPhone 6 bending tests they performed in order to “bring some science to the matter, and find out: ‘How much force does it take for a phone to bend ...

In all likelihood, if you rummaged through any given school desk in the U.S., the first pencil you'd encounter would be a number two pencil. Here's why. Danny Ortega The United States tends to do its ...

Many years ago, before the dawn of the word processor, I worked at The New Yorker at a job called collating, where I had to copy legibly all the changes on a piece of writing (from the editor, the ...