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 ...

Learning how to type correctly is now deemed by educators more important than learning how to write in cursive. About 10 minutes per day is the average time teachers spend with their students on ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — At a middle school in Fairfax County, Virginia, students are learning how to loop their letters together and form words in cursive. 7News talked to a teacher and students ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. (Anna Rose Layden for NPR) Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...