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Related: About this forumHow a privatized GED could hurt New Mexico’s neediest students (Pearson has licensing rights)
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-7402-testing-out.htmlHernandez, 29, who moved to the US from Mexico City a decade ago, is one of 39 million adults in the country without a high school diploma. Now, shes getting one-on-one tutoring in math and science and rushing to complete the exam this month because shes heard some of the impending changes are scary.
Its going to be computerized, and the price is doubling next year, Hernandez says worriedly.
Indeed, prices are set to go up to $120double what Albuquerques Youth Development Inc. currently charges adults like Hernandez to take a bubble test. On top of that, the new GED test, which will be based on the national Common Core standards, will be administered solely on computers. That raises questions about the level of student preparation needed, as well as testing centers ability to pay for the necessary hardware. At YDI, for instance, administrators say theyll no longer be able to offer the test onsite because YDI lacks funding for a computer lab.
All of this has educators around the state concerned about how the 2014 test could impact thousands of New Mexicansand students are rushing to take the exam before it changes.
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The changes come after testing giant Pearson VUE acquired the licensing rights to the GED test two years ago. Now, Pearsona for-profit corporation thats also behind New Mexico Connections Academy, a state-funded virtual charter school set to open this fallhas the power to raise fees and impose new testing restrictions for the GED.
Its going to be computerized, and the price is doubling next year, Hernandez says worriedly.
Indeed, prices are set to go up to $120double what Albuquerques Youth Development Inc. currently charges adults like Hernandez to take a bubble test. On top of that, the new GED test, which will be based on the national Common Core standards, will be administered solely on computers. That raises questions about the level of student preparation needed, as well as testing centers ability to pay for the necessary hardware. At YDI, for instance, administrators say theyll no longer be able to offer the test onsite because YDI lacks funding for a computer lab.
All of this has educators around the state concerned about how the 2014 test could impact thousands of New Mexicansand students are rushing to take the exam before it changes.
....
The changes come after testing giant Pearson VUE acquired the licensing rights to the GED test two years ago. Now, Pearsona for-profit corporation thats also behind New Mexico Connections Academy, a state-funded virtual charter school set to open this fallhas the power to raise fees and impose new testing restrictions for the GED.
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How a privatized GED could hurt New Mexico’s neediest students (Pearson has licensing rights) (Original Post)
antigop
May 2013
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msongs
(67,199 posts)1. race to the top....of the profits nt
savebigbird
(417 posts)2. +1,000,000