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When GEDs mean failure for prisoners

Last year when changes to the GED programs were first announced, analysts predicted it would have a serious impact on the ability of prisoners to acquire their certificates.  A year later, those predictions have proven accurate. Prison GED success rates have dropped dramatically, in some places up to 82%  since the system switched over. To begin, the content

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CLEP Ends Paper-Based Testing Option: Incarcerated Students Left Out in the Cold

A reader of my text, Education Behind Bars: A Win-Win Strategy for Maximum Security, recently notified me that the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) has ceased offering its paper-based examination option.  This means that CLEP testing is now technologically unavailable to virtually all incarcerated students since most of these students lack access to internet-connected computers or

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