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It’s a powerful pen. Its influence reaches beyond the school classroom. We use red ink for all kinds of corrections throughout this country, and many other countries around the world use it.

The association of red ink with failure results from a self-sustaining cycle driven by teachers who use red ink to grade and were graded in red ink while they were growing up, Rutchick said. "The ...