From: The Washington Times  | Date: November 5, 1999  | Author: Bhatti, Jabeen

Remember clapping dusty erasers together on a sidewalk or washing dirty blackboards in a school? Consider yourself dated.

Those ubiquitous green-gray slate chalkboards, once standard issue for any American classroom, are slowly disappearing, pushed out by a modern update: dry-erase boards and multicolored magic markers.

"It's been a gradual transition over the past five years," said Michael Eckhoff, assistant director for design and construction for Fairfax County Public Schools. "Renovated schools and new schools get the dry-erase boards. They are cleaner and more ...

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