Parents Demand Dumbed-down Tests:An Unintended Bad Consequence of the No Child Left Behind Act by Joel Turtel
... Millions of high school students with low reading and math skills now risk not graduating from high school until they pass these tests. It is important that parents know the unvarnished truth about their children’s real academic abilities, but many parents are now frantic because they see their children’s failing grades on these new tests. As a result, they complain to school boards that they do not want their children taking these tests or not graduating from high school because of low ...

Parents --- Homeschooling Can Take a Lot Less Time Than You Think by Joel Turtel
... Public schools take eight to twelve years of children’s lives, yet they turn out millions of high-school graduates who can barely read their own diploma or multiply 12 x15 without a calculator. David Colfax and his wife Micki were public-school teachers turned ranchers who taught their four sons at home in the 1970s and 1980s, and three of their sons eventually went to Harvard. They co-authored a book titled Homeschooling For Excellence, which describes their home-schooling experience.

GED Programs and the GED: A Value Beyond Basic Skills Proficiency by Michael Ormsby
... Consider that 40% of graduating high school seniors wouldn’t pass the GED tests, even though most will still receive a high school diploma. These percentages demonstrate that the GED test is rigorous. A 7.5-hour evaluation, the GED test measures knowledge, skills and proficiency in science, social studies, math, reading, writing ability, and addresses English mechanics, grammar and comprehension. However, the test measures more than basic skills proficiency.

Getting a GED by John Daye
... A Graduate Equivalency Diploma (GED) is a certification for people who have not yet completed high school. The GED is considered a high school equivalency exam. If you’ve only recently dropped out of 11th or 12th grade and the subjects are still fresh in your mind, you may take the GED without a lot of advance preparation. Otherwise, you need to study and prepare yourself with help from the following: 1. Locate a GED Prep course at a school or training facility near you by contacting any ...

Questions And Answers About The GED Test by Leonard Williams
... Today, for the 34 to 38 million adults in the US who never graduated from high school, the GED is the best solution to make educational and career progress. But many people don’t understand the GED and the process of how to get it. As a GED instructor and curriculum developer with PassGED, I’ve answered hundreds of questions from students. It’s likely these questions and answers will be helpful to people who need more information about the GED test and the testing process.

College in the Fifties by Kenneth Hoffman
... Sixteen of us graduated from high school, not including two boys that had to leave in April for spring planting and one girl who got married. One girl and one boy (myself) succeeded in going to college. My grandparents were (relatively) rich but my parents had little money, certainly not enough to send me to college. I loved science and after winning the Bauch and Lomb Science Award, I wanted to be a physicist. My mother read in the newspaper that the S.A.T.s were to be held in a movie ...

Explode Your World With Possibilities by Saleem Rana
... By the age of 11, William Sidis mastered higher mathematics and planetary revolutions, became youngest student to ever enroll at Harvard, and lectured Harvard Mathematical club on "Four-Dimensional Bodies.' He graduated from Harvard, cum laude, on June 24, 1914, at age 16. And two years later, entered Harvard Law School in 1916. Now with this impressive start in life, you would expect that he lived a happy and productive life. Actually, he went into obscurity, took on low paying employment, ...

Computers Rule Our Lives? by Jennifer Kittell
... There is a lot of great information on the internet that is great for research for school as well as non-school education. The problem lies in the fact that anyone can make a web page and solicit their ideas as facts. This becomes a problem especially when writing papers and being able to have solid sources to back up a thesis. On the other hand, if you have a web page that promotes a certain topic or educates people in a positive way you need to be prepared for comments or even ...