GED Disparities.Male high school dropouts who obtain a General Equivalency Development diploma do not fare as well in the labor market labor market A place where labor is exchanged for wages; an LM is defined by geography, education and technical expertise, occupation, licensure or certification requirements, and job experience as conventional high school graduates, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new study by Harvard researchers Richard Murnane, John Willett, and Kathryn Boudett. They examined data on 892 males who left high school before graduation. About one-third earned a GED GED abbr. 1. general equivalency diploma 2. general educational development GED (US) n abbr (Scol) (= general educational development) → diploma at the age of 19 or 20. While little difference existed between the hourly wage GED recipients earn immediately after obtaining the credential and the wage they would have earned without the credential, the hourly wage of GED-holders rose at a faster rate after receiving the diploma, the study found. The researchers concluded that acquiring a GED is not a powerful strategy for escaping poverty. The study appeared in the summer 1995 issue of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, published by the American Educational Research Association The American Educational Research Association, or AERA, was founded in 1916 as a professional organization representing educational researchers in the United States and around the world. . |
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