Mavis Beacon, of “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing” fame, was never a real person; her image, however, became an icon of the software created by Software Toolworks. Les Crane, a former disc jockey and host ...

Should primary and intermediate schools teach children to type so they are ready for online exams at high school?

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former disc jockey who went on to host ABC's The Les Crane Show for one year ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

The National Audit Office has said the New Hospital Programme needs to adopt a series of initiatives to avoid busting budgets and deadlines. In all, 16 firms were shortlisted last summer to compete ...

It’s the age-old question: How do you live to 100 years old? An estimated 101,000 Americans are centenarians, representing just 0.03% of the US population. There’s much we can learn from the ...

A few days ago I realized with a shock that Advent was nearly over. I’d yet to get a tree, and I hadn’t even begun to hunt through the house for my nativity scene. I’d been so preoccupied with ...

Key Finding 1 | The primary education curriculum time allocated to Khmer and Math is not the primary impediments to student learning in Cambodia. Cambodia’s total intended instruction time (i.e. the ...

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At Izetta Sparks Elementary, mornings are for math. "Mrs. Newcomb went to the candy store and bought 43 bags of sour gummy worms..." said Alyssa Newcomb while standing at the smart board, introducing ...

Denver Public Schools are receiving a special gift. Thanks to a new grant, staff and students are learning important lessons in life. A program called "Upstream" is teaching them what you can't learn ...