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Typing Is Still a Foundational Skill. Do We Teach It That Way?
Education Week, 2024
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- An Education Week article, published November 26, 2024, on how US schools teach keyboarding. It reports the results of a survey of school and district leaders by the EdWeek Research Center.
- How much weight it carries
- Established trade journalism that reports a survey of administrators. The survey is not a random national sample that we could verify, so the shares describe what leaders reported, not a count of schools.
Facts taken from this source
- In a survey by the EdWeek Research Center reported in November 2024, 69 percent of school and district leaders said their school or district teaches keyboarding in some capacity.
“Sixty-nine percent of school and district leaders said their school or district teaches keyboarding in some capacity” (Opening section)
- In the same EdWeek Research Center survey, 84 percent of school and district leaders said their school or district teaches keyboarding in grades 3 to 5.
“84 percent of school and district leaders said their school or district teaches keyboarding in grades 3-5” (Opening section)