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Download full textBaldwin, Janet – GED Profiles: Adults in Transition, 1991
A fall 1989 nationwide survey of General Educational Development (GED) Tests candidates examined schooling experiences, study patterns, and educational plans. Findings indicated the GED Tests attracted more young adults than older adults, more older women than older men, and equal numbers of young adult men and women. Seven percent of candidates,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Emmitt, Robert J.; Argento, Barry J. – County Manpower Report, 1980
Since its beginning in 1965, the Job Corps has enrolled more than a million impoverished and undereducated 16- to 21-year-olds in an intensive program of re-education and job skills training. The Job Corps' basic education program uses the systems approach to instruction in reading, mathematics, and high school equivalency subjects; and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Objectives, Federal Programs, High School Equivalency Programs
Reiff, Tana, Ed. – Adult Student Magazine, 1982
Written for, by, and about adult students, this issue includes a series of articles dealing with various aspects of students' career and educational plans and planning. The following topics are covered: the necessity of taking risks in life; the story of someone who finally gets the nerve to take the General Equivalency Development (GED) test;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives
