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April 19, 2008

RETAIN STUDENTS IN SCHOOL THROUGH PROFESSIONAL INTERVENTION: GED ASSESSMENT

By Profesor Martin Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”

This proposal in no way is intended to violate the rights of students and parents to determine what course of action they should take.

Professional intervention (crisis intervention) is needed to slow down the desertion from high school in our nation which is reported at about a million students and may be 1.2 million per year. This intervention is for individuals, but it takes into account that students are influenced by the past behavior of family members, friends, and fellow students in dropping out of school.

We have to see what exit interviews are conducted in our schools and compare the intervention in those schools with the proposed intervention.

The GED Official Practice Test (about a three hour test) will be given to each student who wants to be discharged (all ages) as part of a six hour professional program to assess the students skills to deter the student from leaving school or help students on the next path immediately, the path to the GED. People who earn a GED soon after are still allowed by law or regulation to return to regular school to earn a high school diploma.

Procedures: Taking the GED Official Practice Test after being provided counseling during the exit interview, correction of all parts of the GED Official Practice Test including the composition, grading of papers, determination of whether GED can be recommended or not, remediation that will last about three hours (instruction).

This interaction between teacher and student will set into motion, in many cases, positive feelings about the school situation because of this one on one help, thoughts about staying in the high school, instead of dropping out, and for others thoughts about taking the GED as soon as possible after finding out that the student can pass the GED with little or no effort. The alternatives for almost all students who have dropped out are work, the streets, boredom and depression at home, and much worse, including crime and jails. There is no avenue for the US military and the military needs more recruits now through the GED. Avenues to better employment through the GED and civil service are effectively closed, unless people decide to take the GED on their own with no classroom instruction. The positive alternatives are the ones that I have provided to people across the United States with my GED program.

After testing hundreds of students in particular socio-economic settings, a percentage of success can be used to determine future outcomes. These outcomes will affect the budgets of school districts and ensure that the loss of funds will not be as great as they have been because of declining school populations due to dropping out.

We can provide counseling that also will tell the student, based on his score on the GED Official Practice Test, approximately what percentile he or she is in, using actual GED test scores from the American Council on Education. This information will be a great boost to the ego of students who have lost their way because of failing subjects and excessive absences and help restore their self-confidence. It may also be all that is needed for those students that are at the end of their schools days and only need to pass a class or two to earn a diploma.

MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NEW YORK 11749
631-348-1341
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Profesor Martin Danenberg April 19, 2008 09:30 AM | Noticias | GED Math