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How and When Students Learn to Type, in Charts
Education Week, 2024
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- What it is
- An Education Week article, published November 26, 2024, that charts how school and district leaders say keyboarding is taught, including whether it is a standalone class and when it starts, based on an EdWeek Research Center survey.
- How much weight it carries
- Established trade journalism reporting an administrator survey. The survey is not verified as a random national sample, and it reports what leaders said, not what each classroom does.
Facts taken from this source
- In a 2024 EdWeek Research Center survey, 8 percent of administrators said their school or district taught keyboarding as a standalone class.
“Eight percent of administrators said their school or district taught keyboarding as a standalone class” (Opening section)
- In the same EdWeek Research Center survey, 74 percent of leaders in more affluent systems reported keyboarding instruction in grades K-2, against 51 percent of leaders in less affluent systems.
“Seventy-four percent of district and school leaders in more affluent systems ... report offering keyboarding instruction in grades K-2. By contrast, 51 percent of leaders in less affluent systems” (Section on early instruction)