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More high school diplomas
More GED diplomas
More college students that are prepared by our schools. I want to see that students who pass eighth grade exams at levels 2, 3, and 4 are really more prepared for college. Where is the research and debate? Let it begin now? Ask college admissions if those students are really doing better than students a decade ago?

The statement below comes from Marjorie in Education Notes Online.

But outrageously, students often are counted in as being in GED -Plus and parallel programs when they are pushed out of other schools. In fact they may never have shown up, but it is a manuever used by the DOE to lower the drop out rate from the high -schools. I.e., if a student was "transferred" to another program, it doesn't count as a drop out.

I have written in the past that we must document high school diploma and GED rates together, but we must not confuse the issue by presenting false comparisons to the past achievements of schools in New York City. In other words, in presenting figures for dropping out, as Mayor Bloomberg did in the election of 2009, GED figures should not have been posted together in comparing the record of 1999 with 2008. There were more GED diplomas back in 1999 and that could have made the old Board of Education as effective as the new Department of Education is today. This information was never brought out by the Thompson campaign as it stressed other things. Simply remove the GED numbers and compare both eras and find out the truth about the GED and high school diploma numbers today.

There were 39,692 diplomas issued in 2001
72,970 test takers in 2001

There were 33,309 diplomas issued in 2008 57,000 test takers in 2008

Recently the programs that have been revised by the Department of Education of the City of New York have shown a gain of about 200 diplomas when thousands more diplomas were needed. Yes, this is the work of Cami Anderson. Even though there some welcome improvements that I read in the GED Access program, much of it is wrong for GED. Would you want your son or daughter to get a GED diploma after attending GED class for only two weeks? Would you be unselfish enough to do that for everyone, since you want the same for your child? Well in the South Jamaica Housing Development in the late 1990's, a student that I taught took the GED after only two weeks, passed, it and earned his diploma. Much of what is going on in GED Access is being done backwards and it is hurting the students and the city. The regulations really do not respect the parents' rights, because, ultimately, parents have to sign for their children in order for them to take the GED when their children are under age (under nineteen). The parents should have much more input and tell administrators send my child to take the GED now and let him or her finish up the other components of the program afterwards. There would be more diplomas and everyone would be satisfied.

The big differences are due to completion rates, percent of students passing the test, and that 2001 was the year before the new test in 2002. See the figures below and scroll up to compare them. Start pointing a finger at the people in power who made this happen.
There were 25,804 diplomas issued in 2002
There were 48,905 test takers in 2002

You can see that the system is coming back from a huge decline, just like the stock market has done twice since 2000. You can see the great losses to the state of New York and everyone is to blame. We just lack the right leadership. The GED test will change in 2012 and a huge decline may happen again. Whether it is New Orleans, Haiti, or GED, the people do not get the help they need and not enough get rescued. Politics in education becomes a flood or earthquake shocking the people.

Some breaking news includes that a study of girls shows that teachers in the elementary school are negatively affecting their students and this goes on for the life of their education. Another item is that a charter school in New York City is about to be closed and this school discharged several students (possibly because they would have failed their tests) and for other irregularities.

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