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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] GED is about grade 6?
Anybody know where to get a start on just how high a GED level is? All I've seen is a community college coursebook which seems to peg GED at percents, about grade 6, before pre-algebra. Most state tests require math up to 2 years of algebra or int. math to pass. My experience in the Visual Basic class is that the average level of ability of the US population and education majors is about GED level. www.cascadia.ctc.edu Cascadia Community College >From printed 2000 guide: Math for Life 3 unit price, cost, hourly wages, proportional scaling Math for Life 4 fractions, decimals, American metric, money, portioning Math for Life 5 (GED) begin prep use formulas, percents in word problems credit finance, simple geometry, calculators Math for Life 6 (GED) finish prep solve problems with formulas, bar circle graphs, ratio, proportion. (grade 6/7) Prealgebra algebraic geometric notation, abstract representations from arithmetic. Integrated Math 1 "introduces linear algebraic thnking and brings in related concepts from geometry and triginometry. Learners will develop study skills and habits, team skills , and the ability to express math in many forms while work with both abstract and real world applications. Int Math 2 mostly algebra, right triangle trig, probability, number theory Int Math 3 log, exponentials, geometry, trig, probabioity, modeling techniques -----Original Message----- From: Rick Parkany [mailto:rparkany@BORG.COM] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:12 AM To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU Subject: Re: Dateline: Utica, NY--New standards might prompt more students to seek GED Ladies & Gentlepeople: this is the next in the series on SBE from the Mohawk Valley, here in NYS. If this article is of interest, grab it fast, as the Observer-Dispatch morgue apparently isn't on-line. I wonder how the ham-fisted union leaders and power-corrupted school board members negotiating a solution to this potential drain and indicator of another failed attempt will stem THIS tide! probably by decertifying GREs, no doubt... ;-} rap. New standards might prompt more students to seek GED Uticaod.com : http://www.uticaod.com/statenews/statenews.htm By MICHAEL GORMLEY The Associated Press ALBANY - Educators from Washington, D.C., to a small upstate school system worry that raising state academic standards may drive more students to graduation equivalency tests. The national General Educational Development exam has countless success stories of adult dropouts who have turned their lives around with the test created for returning World War II veterans. But even the test's administrators said it shouldn't be an alternative for students. Yet the attraction is clear. Students whose older brothers obtained local school diplomas without taking the more rigorous Regents tests see a future of tougher Regents courses and tests, including a foreign language. Administrators worried The concern by GED administrators is that students might be "tracked" for the test, denying them the chance to rise to the state's new standards. Other students, they fear, might drop out to take the GED test because only dropouts may take it - unless they get the district superintendent's permission. If they fail, and about half do, it's unlikely they will return to school. "We're seeing an increase in the number of inquiries on the GED," said Geoffrey Davis, district superintendent of the Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery BOCES, a technical education center in Johnstown. But guidance counselors fielding these increased inquiries are trying to dissuade students, many of whom just feel they can't meet the new Regents' graduation standards, Davis said. The first class required to pass the English Regents exam is scheduled to graduate this month. In New York, only 19 year olds and older may take the GED exam, but designated "at-risk" students can remain enrolled and take the test. In 1998, 22 percent of the almost 65,000 who took the test were younger than 19 years old, according to the American Council on Education. About 58 percent passed. That's average for New York, the first state to offer the test to civilians and, in 1998, the second state in which 1 million residents had been issued credentials. Declining dropout rate There has been a "slight upward trend" in the number of students taking the GED, but the trend is also rising for students graduating and the dropout rate has declined in recent years, said state Education Department spokesman Alan Ray. In the latest year for which statistics are available, 1997-98, 28,127 students dropped out - a fraction of 1 percent of enrollment. Members of the state Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner Richard Mills insist that schools and students will rise to higher standards. ...SNIP... -- "Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust! Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit / hat dir selbst das Feld bereit', auf dem du bluehen musst." Peasant, Richard A. Parkany: SUNY@Albany Prometheus Educational Services - http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/ Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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