How will teachers manage to reintroduce cursive writing into the classroom, especially as additional competing requirements like teaching keyboarding vie for instructional time?

Students learn keyboarding earlier, but cursive lives on Technology may have become a staple at home and in school, and Grand Forks educators maybe mulling an even earlier start to keyboarding ...

Indiana schools no longer have to teach cursive writing . Instead, schools can emphasize typing . Read full story What would Dave and Luke do without their cursive? .

From front, Hailey Hendrickson, Terranaja Moore and Betsaida Marroquin tap away in a typing class at King Science and Technology Middle School. Eighth-grader Hailey Hendrickson taps away in a ...

Cursive writing has disappeared from many elementary schools' curriculum as it has taken a backseat to teaching students keyboarding.

Or might keyboarding lessons sacrifice time on spelling and sentence structure to teach something better learned in later years?

Teach keyboarding skills. Children who hunt and peck often don’t notice the auto complete function that suggests search words based on what you type. Point out this feature and explain how it works.

Of all the tedious subjects taught in grammar school, few are duller or more irksome than penmanship. Nevertheless it has always been taught on the presumption that good legible hand writing can ...

Training plummeted While they were supposed to be computer wiz kids, Generation Z famously can’t type. Over the past 25 years, the number of US high schools teaching typing has plummeted. While ...