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Ged Online — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:11:18 +0000

Profile of Lawrenceburg Mayor Allen Chapman

Callie Fuller, GED Success Story

Ged Online — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:58:50 +0000

Callie Fuller shares her GED success story in the PLUGged In program – against the odds

Dayton Musick – GED Success Story

Ged Online — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:30:32 +0000

Dayton Musick’s GED success story

Fear of Success

Ged Online — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:48:11 +0000

Some students are afraid to succeed. To stick out above the crowd. Doing more than others do. Don’t dream or try, even succeed! To do so makes a mockery of what others fail to even attempt. It’s like there is a badge of honor for failing one self. Even if you could pass, stay here with your friends by quitting even intentionally failing. No one expects you to pass and move on. Everyone knows you here and you don’t have to act like you know things.

It is easier to quit by failing. You can blame it on the GED test! Everyone knows that test is not fair. The teacher had it in for you. She thought you had time to do the stupid homework. Let someone else make it. You’re doing fine.

The fact that you are getting a GED say something was wrong. Given a choice between a GED or a high school diploma. You chose a GED! There are criteria for a GED. One, not having a high school diploma or not wanting one. So are you doomed for the rest of your life because you have a GED? Nope, because jobs, colleges are available for you if you can do what is required. An associates, bachelor’s, master’s or PHD degree may be yours.

This won’t happen:

A tragic few have been beaten down by peers, society again and again. The recoil in fear from a hand of help like a whipped dog from an offer of food from a stranger. Both have been trained to expect pain or cruelty from life not good.

We all become comfortable with the environments in which we live. A new change to that environment meets with resistance and stiff resolve not to change. Change has not always been met with happiness or good. The Alaskan gold fields were hard enough in the summer. Let alone, the arctic winter when non-native prospectors died from being ill prepared.

Students like most people tend to keep what they have and have no desire to risk any of what they have. They are not going to take a chance on losing. An open hand is similar to an open mind. They can receive or grasp objects but a closed hand can’t grab anything or receive anything. Contrary to human desire change will occur whether we want it or not.

The struggle to succeed for some students may be a little harder then first imagined. With some problems not normally expected in academia. Even so from the struggle come our GED graduates. Lessons were learned and skills developed.

Cassondra Locke – GED success story

Ged Online — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:17:35 +0000

Cassondra Locke’s GED success story through the PlugGED in program

Paul Salopek: A GED Success Story

Ged Online — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:14:55 +0000

In America, 39 million adults have no high school diploma. The GED offers a second chance to high school drop-outs. But how far can you go in life with a GED? Take a look at Paul Salopek, a journalist who has won two Pulizer Prizes as a foreign correspondent. Paul Salopek was born in Barstow, California in 1962. He dropped out of high school, and he took the GED to earn his high school equivalency. He didn’t stop there. While working as a fisherman and farm worker, Salopek earned a degree in environmental biology from UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 1984. When his motorcycle broke down in New Mexico a year later, he took a job at a local newspaper to earn money to repair his bike. It was the beginning of a career. Salopek has worked for National Geographic and Texas’s El Paso Times. Currently he is a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, writing about Africa, Central Asia, and the Balkans. In 1998, he won a Pulizer Prize for writing about the Human Genome Diversity Project, and in 2001, he won another for his writing about Africa, including the civil war in Congo. He has written about over 50 countries throughout the world. In 2006, Salopek was held in prison for five weeks in Darfur, one of the many conflict zones he’s traveled to as a writer. Salopek is the recipient of the 2009 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism. As part of the award, he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Paul Salopek took his GED and went to the ends of the earth with it. That’s what the GED is for. It opens doors for adults who need more opportunity, for better jobs, higher education, and personal fulfillment. Each GED earned represents the potential for achieving a dream.

Virginia GED Success Story 3

Ged Online — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:18:47 +0000

Andre Bright, who dropped out of high school, talks about how earning his GED has opened up his future in another Race to GED Virginia success story. For more information about earning your GED, visit www.vaged.vcu.edu or call 1-877-37-MY GED.

GED Success: Skills versus Facts

Ged Online — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:18:06 +0000

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. . .

FOIL: first, outside, inside, last. . .

I before E, except after C, or when pronounced “ay” as in neighbor and weigh. . .

People have all kinds of fun and interesting ways to remember facts about mathematics, history, spelling, and a host of other topics. It’s true that you need to memorize some things to succeed on your GED exam. . . but did you know that your skills are just as important as what facts you’re able to remember? It’s true!

In this world, it’s fairly easy to get most types of information. A few seconds on Google can pull up nearly anything you want to know. So, what employers, colleges, and other schools need to know about you is that you can comprehend and use the information you find. Many questions on the GED provide you with a short passage to read, or a map, table, or diagram to look at in order to answer questions. So, how do you make the most of your skills on these questions?

As you prepare, check your skills. There are so many ways to present information that interpreting different types of maps, tables, and diagrams are really a topic of study all its own. Think about this: have you frequently had trouble understanding some kind of table or diagram? Do you often ignore diagrams or charts when you read, assuming you won’t get anything out of them? Do you use maps to get where you’re going or just step-by-step directions? Notice what skills may need improvement and spend some extra time on those parts of your prep course. The skills you learn will help you on the GED and in your own day-to-day life.

Slow down. If this suggestion irritates you, please know that it’s not meant to! It’s very natural for a person who feels pressured to do well to “step on the gas” and move quickly. Remember that in years past, doing well for a human didn’t usually mean reading a map – it meant getting away from a lion or a bear! Tasks like the GED, however, aren’t all about speed. When you encounter a passage or visual aid, take enough time to be certain you know what it’s talking about. Chances are, you’ve never seen it before, and making assumptions about what it says could lead you in the wrong direction entirely!

Think critically. Notice what’s being said. . . notice what’s not being said that might be relevant. . . notice what assumptions you might be inclined to make. . . and especially when reading a sample text, notice what the author’s unspoken perspective (and biases) might be.

Chase horses, not zebras. This is to say, look for ordinary answers you would expect given the context. If you see an answer choice that looks really silly or “out there,” you can probably eliminate it in favor of things that seem more probable.

Virginia GED Success Story 2

Ged Online — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:11:55 +0000

Captain Sonny Alicie, a retired law enforcement officer, talks about the importance of earning his GED in this Race to GED Virginia success story. For more information about earning your GED, visit www.vaged.vcu.edu or call 1-877-37-MY GED.

Rita Boothe, GED Success Story

Ged Online — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:44:45 +0000

Rita shares her Virginia GED Success Story – and her video was a GED contest winner!