Dear FOB Listers:

Greetings from snowy Boston!  I direct the National College Transition Network (NCTN), which is located at World Education.  For me, the work of John Tyler and his colleagues has been extremely powerful and helpful in telling us why students need to move beyond the GED to postsecondary education.

The National College Transition Network is a relatively new organization.  We began in 2003 and initially focused on promising practices learned from 25 adult education transition programs participating in a regional project, the New England ABE-to-College Transition Project.  Now, we bring together the work of practitioners, administrators, policy-makers and researchers from around the country, all are people interested in adult transition.  There’s a lot more to be said but, since a picture is worth a thousand words, you might prefer touring our websites:
http://www.collegetransition.org
http://www.collegeforadults.org

Back to John’s work.  In the FOB article, “Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education?” you mention that GED holders, when they do go on to college, only accumulate 7.3 credits within three years compared to 32.8 credits for all high school grads.  Does your research show which courses students take or at what level they begin when they enter college?





Cynthia Zafft, Director
National College Transition Network (NCTN)
World Education, Inc.
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210
(617) 482-9485
www.collegetransition.org