Pencil lead however, might cause some to worry as lead is a well known poison that can cause developmental problems in kids and irreversible damage to organs such as your kidneys and even your brain.

Get the kids to quit wanting hundreds of pencils. And we shouldn’t just blame the kids. I inventoried my desk drawer at home and was shocked to find 31 brand new, unsharpened Ticonderoga No. 2 ...

They’re the bacon and eggs of education. The No. 2 pencils tucked into backpacks of kids heading back to Wabash Valley schools this week look a lot like those their grandparents carried. Pencils ...