The percentage of Utah high school students demonstrating college-level mastery on the AP test was reported at 19.3%, the third highest in the nation (behind New York and Maryland) and well above the national average of 13.2%.
An ethnic gap in both participation and achievement still exits: we still have a discrepancy between the percentage of [...]
<label>sIn a past article, I mentioned that the lack of <label> tags bothered me, and managers don’t always know what to look for when evaluating delivered code.
<label> tags are, unfortunately, one of least understood tags among amateur and self-taught web developers. I suspect it is because there are no obvious visual indicators when used. Differences [...]
It bothers me that so many web developers don’t understand basic accessibility concepts. HTML is a funny thing in the education world. When I studied computer science it was never discussed, but we were expected to use and understand the basics for several assignments. (The same for XML.) Most of the professional web developers I [...]
For about three years now it has been my goal to get an MBA. Not just from a "pay your fee, get your ‘B’" institution, but an honest to goodness university with a solid business program. In addition to the not inconsequential cost barrier, something has always been in the way. Traditional day programs are [...]
I had decided to not comment on hurricane Katrina or its aftermath, primarily to avoid the conversations devolving into finger-pointing and racism. I have some very strong opinions on these topics, but nothing which hasn’t already been said. My adding to it won’t change anyone’s mind.
However, I did come across an article that deserves [...]
Nearly a year after a rather abortive attempt at blogging, I’ve decided to try again. I’ve chosen to violate one of Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design, by removing a handful of my old posts (it’s number six on his list). They weren’t me; they lacked personality, and tended to [...]
Molly Holzschlag has posted an interesting comparison of web standards as used by popular search engines. Of particular interest were the comments regarding Google, whose site does not validate, uses tables for layout, and generally violates the sensibilities of hard core standards proponents. The following comment to Molly’s post by "Frank" says it [...]
Amidst some rather unwarranted political furor and sensationalist headlines, the State Board of Education approved a position statement supporting the teaching of evolution in high school biology classes.
The public participation was the largest it’s been this year. The primary proponent for including intelligent design as part of the curriculum has been Utah Senator Chris [...]
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