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GED
A GED simply keeps students at the same level as their dropout peers
Students who earn a GED are in the same economic boat as those who drop out of college.
For most a GED is simply not a ticket to a better life
We’re big fans of Claudio Sanchez. Few journalists in the United States have both the depth of experience and the passion that he brings to covering education issues for National Public Radio.
The siren's song of the GED
Fifteen teams of school officials in Wellston, Mo., spent the weekend canvasing the homes of former students who have dropped out of school, KSDK News reports.
At one home, Superintendent Stanton Lawrence had a conversation with the mother of one of his district's dropouts.
"Well, actually, he's decided to go through a GED program," she told him.
An oil-slicked slope: Why government programs that herd dropouts toward a GED are cutting students short
It would be easy to forget that anything else has happened in Louisiana over the past few months. But even as the nation’s attention has been transfixed by the enormous environmental and economic disaster caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, life has gone on in the Pelican State.
Bad economy is bad news for dropouts who hoped to join the Army
The bad economy has been good for the Army: Even at a time in which the United States is fighting wars on two fronts, the military no longer has a problem getting young men and women to volunteer for service.
And that means the Army no longer has a need to help potential recruits get earn their high school equivalency certificate — a bare minimum qualification for enlistment. So the Army is shutting down a "prep" program that helped 3,000 high school dropouts get a GED.