[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2640] RE: value of GED

From: Barbara Garner (barbara_garner@worlded.org)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 09:33:29 EDT


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Beyond the GED, a set of teaching materials, is also available on the
NCSALL web site. They're designed to introduce students to what is known
about the economic impact of the GED, in the hopes of providing them
with some impetus to continue on to postsecondary. The text was targeted
towards GED prep students, so perhaps that will be suitable for the
learner who contacted you, Daphne.
Find the materials on the NCSALL website: http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu

Click on teaching and training materials. Scroll down: it's the second
item in the list.

Also, Focus on Basics has featured material about the impact of the
GED.
Same Web site, under Publications, Focus on Basics, Topic. Scroll down
to these two articles:

NCSALL Research Finding: 
The GED: Whom Does It Help?
John H. Tyler
(Volume 2, Issue B, June 1998)

Focus on Research:
NCSALL's The Process of Passing the GED
Barbara Garner
(Volume 2, Issue B, June 1998)

And don't forget the new publication, Focus on Policy. A box on
NCSALL's home page will lead you right there. 

Barb Garner
Editor, Focus on Basics
NCSALL
(that annoying "fill in your state" page that guards the entrance to
"Focus on Basics" has actually provided us with much useful information
upon which we have acted...so thanks for jumping that hurdle)
>>> sissy.kegley@verizon.net 07/12/03 05:13PM >>>
I just came across several documents related to this on the ncsall
site.
Click on publications, then go to the research briefs ( 2-pagers).:

presumably they are all written at advanced levels...perhaps they can
lead you to something at an easier to read level.

Sissy Kegley
ESOL/Adult Education
(301) 588-4333 (home office)
(301) 467-5364 (cell phone)
sissy.kegley@verizon.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov] On Behalf
Of Daphne Greenberg
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2636] value of GED

An adult learner has emailed me asking me for anything that she can
read
that can show her the value of getting a GED. I would like to pose her
question to the group. Do you know of anything that she can look at
that
shows the value of getting a GED? If you know of something, please
also
indicate if it is written at an advanced literacy level, or at an
easier
to read level.
Thanks,
Daphne

Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
MSC 6A0360
Georgia State University
33 Gilmer Street SE Unit 6
Atlanta, GA 30303-3086
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg@gsu.edu 



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