Educators say traditional typing practice is essential for standardized testing performance and future careers.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 7-year-olds in Natalie May’s second-grade class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach “ASDF” and “JKL;” as they listen to the ...

Sep. 3—The beginning of the school year sometimes overwhelms both students and parents so I thought I would just take it easy on what to give you and I thought that with all that children have been ...

So this year I (re)learned how to type. It all started because I wanted a cute keyboard with cute keycaps. I had lugged around a cheap, hand-me-up Kensington for years. Considering how much I work and ...

Carol Parker is grateful that her school has supported her efforts to offer students keyboarding instruction. The assistant principal at Tennessee’s Rockvale Middle School has witnessed firsthand how ...

While schools may be teaching touch typing because of the Common Core tests, the ability to use a keyboard is an important life skill, said Cathy Turner, a technology teacher at an elementary school ...

Typing on small screens can still be challenging, but today’s keyboard apps still focus on text entry over speech, despite the advances in voice-based computing and the increasing accuracy of speech ...

The 7-year-olds in Natalie May’s second-grade class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach “ASDF” and “JKL;” as they listen to the animated characters on their computer screens ...

The 7-year-olds in Natalie May's second-grade class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach "ASDF" and "JKL;" as they listen to the animated characters on their computer screens ...