GED Revision Opens Path to Higher Ed.

Autor/in	Gewertz, Catherine
Titel	GED Revision Opens Path to Higher Ed.
Quelle	In: Education Week, 31 (2011) 12, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Academic Standards; Education Work Relationship; High School Equivalency Programs; Developmental Studies Programs; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Educational Improvement; Educational Innovation; Partnerships in Education; Instructional Development; Relevance (Education); General Educational Development Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Developmental studies; Developmental psychology; Study; Studies; Entwicklungspsychologie; Studium; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Relevance; Relevanz
Abstract	The General Educational Development program, or GED, is undergoing the biggest revamping in its 69-year history, driven by mounting recognition that young adults' future success depends on getting more than a high-school-level education. Potent forces have converged to stoke the GED's redesign. A labor market that increasingly seeks some postsecondary training, paired with dispiriting rates of college remediation and completion, has sounded alarm bells that young Americans are ill-equipped for prosperous futures. In response, nearly every state has adopted common academic standards designed to elicit new kinds of skills from students. President Barack Obama has urged the nation to use such standards as a steppingstone to producing millions more people with certificates or degrees. Sponsors of the GED view its revision as a step toward postsecondary training rather than the end of a student's formal education. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10