(CNN) – In the face of recent attacks upon political cartoonists, it would be no surprise if the art form’s popularity would stall. However, instead a new cartoon contest is sweeping the globe and has ...

I just heard about a Massachusetts sixth grade teacher who wants to ban her students from bringing writing implements to school. She seems to think that they can be used as weapons. The teacher would ...

Sometimes a pencil is just a pencil. Except, apparently, when “zero tolerance” applies. Two 7-year-old boys at Driver Elementary School in Suffolk were suspended for two days this week because they ...

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 ...