Word: ged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These women are actively reaching out for help," says Theresa A. Finn '89, who heads the South Boston Outreach Tutoring Program for women aiming to earn a high school Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED). "And when there's individualized attention, we can really help them out with their problems...
...know what's necessary for the GED, but we also build a strong relationship with the students," says Finn. "That's something these women probably haven't ever had before, including in their past GED classes...
Duquette worked with Harvard tutors for four weeks before taking the GED exam, which she then passed; she now hopes to attend Bunker Hill Community College...
Each new inmate GED represents a victory for prison case managers. But the program can help prisoners who attend tutoring sessions only once or twice, organizers say. At the very least, they say, the program gives prisoners a chance to exercise their minds. "If they learn fractions, they're going to take that out on the streets," O'Connell says. "The Program Area gets quiet when [the tutors] come, and that silence says something educational is going...
Some tutors say they view the program's socializing function as more important than the academic instruction. At times, however, the two become virtually indistinguishable. Freed recalls one Monday when he and an inmate were reviewing the social studies segment of a GED exam. "He couldn't find America on the map. We put aside the book and just talked about the basic principles this country was founded on," Freed recalls. "These were new ideas to him, and finally he said, `Wow, this is really neat...