Adult Academies Alternative
As is reasonably well known, older adolescents and adults who have not completed high school can obtain an equivalency diploma by passing the GED Tests (the Tests of General Educational Development). A 2010 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau placed the number of adults in New York State without high
Beyond the New GED Tests
In 2010, the organization that had been responsible for the development of the GED Tests for more than half a century, the American Council on Education (ACE), announced that it had decided to terminate its work on the development of a new test series and, instead, would pursue the development
CUNY START Talk
I’d like to begin by thanking Mia Simon for inviting me to talk with you this morning. I’m glad to be here. There are a number of familiar faces in the room and I’m happy to be back among them. My periodic returns to CUNY are almost always opportunities to
Finally Doing Something about Specialized High Schools Admissions
Catching Up With Texas and Finally Doing Something about Admissions to the Specialized High Schools The woefully small percentages of black and Hispanic students at the city’s specialized high schools is not a new development, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do something to change it. Here’s my suggestion: the
Remediation in Need of Re-Mediation
On March 4th, The New York Times published a very distressing article on remediation at CUNY—it was distressing because the main concerns of the article were the financial and intellectual burden of students needing remediation, especially those needing a great deal of remediation, on the University. It is not completely