Archive for October 15th, 2004

Sheryl and company get a grant to study automatic conversion of graphs and charts to tactile forms. Way to go!

Published October 15, 2004 Technology Closed

I wrote a couple of months ago about my colleague Sheryl Burgstahler and her DO-IT projects to help students with all kinds of disabilities work with computing.

Now Sheryl, along with Richard Ladner and Rajesh Rao of the Computer Science department and Melody Ivory-Ndiaye or the Information School have won a big new grant from National Science Foundation to find the best ways to represent in tactile form the graphical images found in scientific, engineering, and mathematical books and papers, as well as in digital formats, and to automate as much of this work as possible.

The project web site is here. Nice work!

California high-schoolers not ready for college-level work

Published October 15, 2004 Learning & Teaching Closed

Hoo-boy – this is depressing. I doubt whether the other states are doing any better.

From an article in the Sacramento Bee:

Nearly six months after giving the first statewide exam to identify students who aren’t prepared for university-level course work, California State University officials found that nearly 80 percent of high school juniors they tested are not ready for college English.

The same test – called the Early Assessment Program – dealt better results in math, with 45 percent of participating juniors posting scores too low to prove they are ready for college-level math.

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