She was applying for an AmeriCorps job to help adults earn high-school equivalency diplomas.
CreditSesame.com offers a free Experian National Equivalency score, with a range of 360 to 840.
The first security feature attached to the B standard was called Wired Equivalency Protocol and it was pretty poor from the get-go.
It is reported that Ms Mansfield had dropped out of school after becoming pregnant but later gained her GED or high school equivalency qualification.
It's been the only thing in town for high school equivalency testing.
As states consider their options, a question is emerging: Will colleges and employers recognize an equivalency diploma that isn't called the GED?
It was agreed that the Conference advanced understanding on TVET policies and strategies for integrating academic courses with vocational education through equivalency.
But states considering switching say they'll put more emphasis on the equivalency credential or diploma they issue rather than the test taken to earn it.
My father became a pharmacy technician while studying for his US equivalency exam, and my mother worked as a grocery store cashier while attending nursing school.
But again, we have this false equivalency that keeping video games out of kids hands and keeping guns out of kids hands are equally as important.
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But people also qualify who are older than 17, some of whom didn't graduate from high school but possess the high-school equivalency credential known as the GED.
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In so doing, his report established a moral equivalency for the Jewish State with the terrorists of Hamas and contributed mightily to international efforts to stigmatize and delegitimize Israel.
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The State Department still practices moral equivalency when dealing with the Israelis and Yasir Arafat's Palestinians, making it sound as if both parties are equally at fault for the violence.
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The question was whether a high deductible policy that meets the standards set by the 2003 law creating HSA plans would also meet the 60 percent actuarial equivalency threshold set by ObamaCare.
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"The national situation is definitely fluid, " said Tom Robbins, Missouri's director of adult education and high school equivalency, noting that other states plan to use the GED for now and bid later.
The Festo case, which appears headed toward the Supreme Court, is pitting large companies like IBM and Ford who say the fuzzy equivalency doctrine encourages lawsuits against smaller firms who worry their innovations will be ripped off.
He highlights a bright spot: A building in the community converted to a makeshift classroom and library where residents can get tutoring help and then take the GED --- the high school equivalency exam.
The responsibility for issuing high school equivalency certificates or diplomas rests with states, and they've relied on the General Education Development exam since soon after the test was created to help returning World War II veterans.
But it is long past time to acknowledge that there is no moral equivalency between those that work to defend the innocent, though imperfectly, and those that defend the slaughter of innocents to justify political ends.
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Last month, New York, Montana and New Hampshire announced they were switching to a new high school equivalency exam, and California officials began looking into amending regulations to drop the requirement that the state only use the GED test.
For the equivalency exam field tests, the state Education Department is trying to select a representative group of schools and students, including schools in rural, urban and suburban areas, as well as students who speak Spanish as their first language.
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"It's really yet to be determined, " said Amy Riker, director of high-school equivalency testing at ETS. An estimated 40 million American adults don't have high-school diplomas, and in 2011, about 723, 000 people took at least part of the GED test.
The holistic vision of the programme is evident in the six learning strands within the Accreditation and Equivalency Sub-Programme, namely communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving, sustainable use of resources and productivity, self-development, a sense of community and expanding one's world vision.
The Festo case, which appears to be bound for the Supreme Court, is pitting large companies (such as IBM and Ford), which say that the fuzzy equivalency doctrine encourages lawsuits, against smaller companies, which are worried that their innovations will be ripped off.
Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said in a news release that without the change, New York would have had to pay the GED test maker twice as much or limit the number of test takers because state law bars residents from being charged to take the equivalency exam.
One reason for the relatively large high school completion rate is that the United States offers a number of "second chances" for students to obtain a high school diploma, including attendance at special school-based programs and obtaining a General Education Credential (GED) credential, usually by passing a high school equivalency examination.
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