K-12 learners studying at the Burris Laboratory School have been using iPads as a learning tool this year. Thanks to a grant of $200,000 by the Indiana Department of Education, the school's ...

You probably were first introduced to erasers in kindergarten. “E is for Eraser,” you may have chanted. And when your little hands grew big enough to hold a pencil, you learned how to make marks with ...

Almanac: The pencil and eraser 02:05. And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 30th, 1858, 156 years ago today . . . the day a Philadelphia inventor made his mark.

It's time to sharpen your knowledge of pencil history! (Bet you can't guess what the first erasers were made of.) ...

Finding a pencil with an honest-to-goodness, functioning eraser is much harder than it should be, and even separate erasers sold on their own often do a middling job.

Finding a pencil with an honest-to-goodness, functioning eraser is much harder than it should be, and even separate erasers sold on their own often do a middling job.

Those erasers found at the end of #2 pencils and in wedges are made of rubber. While the classic rubber eraser is pink, you can find them in a wide range of hues.

6. Pencils with built-in erasers on the tops are a largely American phenomenon. Most pencils sold in Europe are eraser-less.Read into that cultural difference what you will.

The pencil eraser was patented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Hymen Lipman, a Jewish immigrant from Kingston, Jamiaca, on this day in history, March 30, 1858.

Erasers eradicate pencil markings by lifting graphite from the paper you’ve written on. As you write, particles of graphite from your pencil mingle with and cling to particles in the fibre of ...