Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j7BJErG09743; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:14:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:14:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <CCD344CE-A980-44A4-AE81-F6E2D712B53A@comcast.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: David Rosen <djrosen@comcast.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1440] GED and Postsecondary Education X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Content-Length: 1330 Lines: 36 NIFL-Fobasics Colleagues, John Tyler, a research colleague, with Richard Murnane and others, has studied earnings outcomes of GED graduates. In response to a request from me for more information on this question, he asked that I post this message here. David J. Rosen djrosen@comcast.net ----- From: John_Tyler@brown.edu Subject: RE: More postings on the GED post-secondary ed Question Date: August 11, 2005 3:01:00 PM EDT To: djrosen1@comcast.net David: Could you post this response for me. Looking at individuals who were sophomores in 1982, and who had a ten year horizon to obtain any post-secondary education, Richard Murnane of Harvard and I found that about 30 percent of GED holders ever enrolled in a two- or four-year college. This compares to about 70 percent for regular high school graduates. We found that only about one percent of GED holders had four years worth of post-secondary credits, compared to 36 percent of regular high school graduates. Furthermore, we found that most of the post-secondary enrollment for GED holders was in two-year colleges, while most regular high school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges. Work that Magnus Lofstrom (UT-Dallas) and I are doing using more recent (mid-1990s) and detailed data from Texas, supports these same patterns. -----
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