LOUISVILLE, Ky. — They’re at the top of the list for every back-to-school shopper: pencils. And not just any pencil will do—they’ve got to be No. 2 pencils. But, what the heck is a No. 2 pencil? And ...

The No. 2 pencil — or its equivalent — is one of the most common pencils in the world. Numbers are used to classify grades of pencils in the United States, while both numbers and letters — in what may ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — In 2022, Tools for School served approximately 9,113 students across the Piedmont. Since 1996, more than 675,000 students have benefitted from "Tools for School." When you give ...

Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was sculpted out of a ...

One artist in Philadelphia is using an unusual canvas. Nate Walker turns bollards — those short, streetside poles meant to keep cars from diving up sidewalks — into something we are all familiar with: ...

With adolescent anxiety surging and attention spans challenged, high school students will take a revamped version of the SAT on Saturday, which has been designed in part to reduce stress, according to ...