20 years ago, competitive typing became all the rage in the school computer lab thanks to sessions of edutainment favorite Type to Learn.

Children must learn touch typing — the ability to compose text without looking at keys — so they can focus on their writing, said Kathleen Regan, the director of curriculum and instruction at ...

Most 2nd graders practice the Christopher Columbus method of typing–“find a key and land on it”–but Guatam Vangipuram’s tiny hands fly across his computer keyboard wit… ...

Experts say 25 lessons, of approximately an hour, are needed to achieve a proficient touch typing skill level.

At a time when schools are abandoning teaching cursive, and texting and typing overtake penning notes by significant margins, science suggests that writing things down by hand set them in memory ...

Second-grade teacher Kimberly Blackert helps Cody Simpson with his touch typing assignment on Oct. 11, 2013 at Horseshoe Trails Elementary School in Phoenix, Ariz. Formal keyboarding instruction ...