Public schools in Orange County should make every student learn keyboarding — typing for those of us of a certain age — in middle school, said Bill Sublette, chairman of the Orange County School Board ...

I can still feel the tips of my 10-year-old fingers striking the orange cover on the keyboard. It was in this 5th grade public-school class that – despite my frequent boos and bellyaching – I learned ...

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. If you know this phrase, I know where you were in high school. You were in typing class with me, back when it was still called typing and not “keyboarding ...

Ayla Vick sits at a desktop computer with her hands on the keyboard. She places her fingers on the home row, stretching them to form words on the screen. “Sometimes I have to look down,” admits the ...

In the early ‘90s, I was an elementary school librarian and an adjacent computer lab was part of my domain. Wanting to prepare our fifth graders to become more fluent writers, we ran them through a ...

Push-pull, push-pull, push-pull. Around and around and around. My pencil flew over the paper, trying to comply with the teacher’s exhortations. Those were some of the penmanship drills that I ...

JACKSON, Mo. -- When it came to writing papers for class, some students used to hunt and peck their way across the keys of typewriters or computers until they learned the proper techniques in high ...