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...better education and a better life. But a new report published by his organization questions the effectiveness of the GED as a launching pad for higher education. Almost 60% of all dropouts go back for some kind of high school degree, most often a GED, but less than ten percent of that group who enrolled in some sort of college end up actually earning a degree. Cunningham says that students who drop out of high school have a lot of deficits - academic, social, motivational - that a single exam won't cure. Schools and states, he says, need to stop pushing...
...That's why the German model has occasionally been exported, if only on a local basis, to nations that also suffer shortages of trained workers. For instance, when BMW decided ten years ago to open a factory in central England, the enginemaker struck a deal with the British government to jointly finance a German-style apprenticeship program. Likewise, in 1995 a small consortium of manufacturing companies in North Carolina - that now includes firms headquartered in Germany, Switzerland and Austria - approached high schools and community colleges in the Charlotte area to develop Apprenticeship 2000, a four-year program for students interested...
...This is the first time the department has placed among the top in the nation in the last ten years, said Professor of Statistics Xiao-Li Meng, who is in his second year as department chairman...
...students, who were selected during Phi Beta Kappa elections late last month, are culled from over ten different concentrations. Thirteen students in the social sciences were awarded the honor, along with six in the natural sciences, and five in the humanities...
...Meng said if current faculty searches are successful, the number of professors could rise to ten, with an additional professor shared with Government...