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Mamadou Ndiaye
Monday March 26, 2012
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
by Mamadou NdiayeA recent NPR report has raised doubts about the value of a GED as an equivalent of a high school diploma and most importantly its value in the labor market. The report quotes a top lieutenant of the Los Angeles Unified School District saying: "If I were prepared today with a GED, and that's what I had as an 18-year-old, I'd be scared to death of...
Topics: College Readiness, Dropout Recovery
Friday December 9, 2011
"It Broke Me Up into Pieces and Put Me Back Together"
by Mamadou Ndiaye"It broke me up into pieces and put me back together."
That’s how a young woman described her experience at Training Futures in Northern Virginia when I visited there in 2009. She was enrolled in an internship at a local company, handsomely dressed and beaming with confidence when I sat across the table from her during a visit one afternoon in...
Topics: Dropout Recovery
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