I think of September as a clean slate. Unfortunately, that instantly brands me a relic of the stone-age twentieth century when teachers wrote on blackboards ...

Chalkboard slate. Harder to figure were entries for the purchase of lightning rods and hand grenades. Wilson, a member of the school board, is taking up a ...

The front wall has a sort of blackboard. It is not made of slate, but is rather a sheet of wood painted black, which, Ehret explained, is how it was done in ...

The Howell Farm school mistress has McGuffy readers, slates and slate pencils ready for students of all ages to begin their lessons in the three R's. ...

Photo: Getty Best Opinion: Chicago Sun-Times, Hot Air, Slate... Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are appearing together at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage on ...

I think of September as a clean slate. Unfortunately, that instantly brands me a relic of the stone-age twentieth century when teachers wrote on blackboards ...

Chalkboard slate. Harder to figure were entries for the purchase of lightning rods and hand grenades. Wilson, a member of the school board, is taking up a ...

The front wall has a sort of blackboard. It is not made of slate, but is rather a sheet of wood painted black, which, Ehret explained, is how it was done in ...

Photo: Getty Best Opinion: Chicago Sun-Times, Hot Air, Slate... Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are appearing together at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage on ...

(YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS--JASON PLOTKIN) incorporated into the stage of the new school's all-purpose room, and old slate blackboards were built into ...

Chalkboard slate.Harder to figure were entries for the purchase of lightning rods and hand grenades.Wilson, a member of the school board, is taking up a cause shared by historians, alums and anyone else who has tried to ...

It's basically a lap-sized, solar powered screen with the same size and function as the old blackboard slate. These low-energy, solar-powered 'I-Slates' seem somewhat familiar – could this new solar power information technology compete ...

The floors in the living room are slate, recycled slate blackboards from a school, and, if that wasn't enough, the green slate in the kitchen is recycled blackboards (in this case greenboards) as well. The front courtyard garden is ...

Then some bright fellow cut thin slabs of slate rock, polished it and the chalkboard was born. Chalk writing on slate chalkboards was the mainstay in the classroom for many years, and even the business world realized they could ...

Students will expect the Slate to be a cell phone with a large screen that can immediately start sending and receiving SMS. Teachers will expect that the Slate will be a blackboard on which they can show lessons from a master Slate ...