It may not be a New York Times article, but being from my alma mater makes it even more special.
http://www.statepress.com/2011/04/14/asu-alum-uses-typewriters-in-high-school-classroom/
If you are visiting for the fisrt time, you can find all the old posts archived in the right side-bar.We are nearly wrapping up the project for the 2010-2011 school year. I have learned a lot and I think the students have too. If you are looking for documents describing the foundations of this project please read these posts:
1. The original proposal sent to the nascent typosphere: http://magicmargin.blogspot.com/2010/08/classroom-typewriter-project.html
2. The Hypothesis: http://magicmargin.blogspot.com/2010/08/hypothesis.html
3. The Process: http://magicmargin.blogspot.com/2010/08/process.html
4. Some results: http://magicmargin.blogspot.com/2010/09/results-of-weekly-typewriter-inventory.html
and http://magicmargin.blogspot.com/2010/09/weekly-typewriter-inventory-analysis.html
and http://magicmargin.blogspot.com/2010/10/analysis-and-monks.html
and http://magicmargin.blogspot.com/2010/12/young-truth.html
