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It was business as usual in the sixth-grade classrooms at the elementary school today. Some students used traditional yellow No. 2 pencils, while others used pens and mechanical pencils – returning ...

As a new middle-school teacher, I’m facing a challenge I never thought about before: assigning a list of school supplies for my students. My colleagues tell me that there’s a real downside to wooden ...