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 ...

School, which means it's time to go shopping for back-to-school supplies! There are plenty of boring back-to-school lists out ...

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

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 ...

Written by Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. Illustrated by German Blanco Ages 3–6 “When Pencil Met Eraser,” by Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. This hilariously illustrated book ...

“Do you know why pencils have erasers?” mother asked, surprising Emily since she wasn’t expecting such a question. Emily replied, “To erase our mistakes, whenever we write something wrong.” ...

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.