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General Educational Development

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General Equivalency Development or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) tests are a group of four subject tests which, when passed, provide certification that the test taker has United States or Canadian high school-level academic skills. [1]

50 relations: Adult education, American Council on Education, Aphasia, Arizona State University, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Badge of shame, Barron's Educational Series, Bipolar disorder, Braille, California High School Proficiency Exam, Canada, Cheating, Chronic condition, Community college, Compact Cassette, Disability, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Emotional and behavioral disorders, English language, Essay, French language, Graduation, High school diploma, Honors student, HSED, James Heckman, Language interpretation, Learning disability, Mental health, Metropolitan area, Pearson Education, Pearson plc, Schizophrenia, Scholarship, Secondary school, Sign language, Social studies, Spanish language, Standardized test, State school, Territories of the United States, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, The Washington Post, Tourette syndrome, Trademark, United States, United States Armed Forces, Visual impairment.

Adult education

Adult education is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.

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American Council on Education

The American Council on Education (ACE) is a U.S. higher education organization established in 1918.

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Aphasia

Aphasia is an inability to comprehend and formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions.

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Arizona State University

Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public metropolitan research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder of the neurodevelopmental type.

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Badge of shame

A badge of shame, also a symbol of shame, mark of shame or stigma, is typically a distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism or persecution.

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Barron's Educational Series

Barron's Educational Series, Inc. is an American test preparation company, founded in 1939 as a publisher of materials to help students to prepare for college entrance examinations, and that offers online college entrance exam preparation classes.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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California High School Proficiency Exam

The California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) is an early, high school-exit exam offered in California.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Cheating

Cheating is the receiving of a reward for ability or finding an easy way out of an unpleasant situation by dishonest means.

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Chronic condition

A chronic condition is a human health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time.

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Community college

A community college is a type of educational institution.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Disability

A disability is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these.

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Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia is difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, and learning facts in mathematics.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence.

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Emotional and behavioral disorders

Emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD; sometimes called emotional disturbance or serious emotional disturbance) refer to a disability classification used in educational settings that allows educational institutions to provide special education and related services to students that have poor social or academic adjustment that cannot be better explained by biological abnormalities or a developmental disability.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Graduation

Graduation is getting a diploma or academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated with it, in which students become graduates.

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High school diploma

A high school diploma is a North American academic school leaving qualification awarded upon high school graduation.

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Honors student

An honor student is a student recognized for achieving high grades or high marks in their coursework at school.

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HSED

HSED or High School Equivalency Diploma or HEP is comparable to achieving a high school diploma instead of simply proving the skills by taking the GED.

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James Heckman

James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist who is currently at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Director of the.

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Language interpretation

Interpretation or interpreting is a translational activity in which one produces a first and final translation on the basis of a one-time exposure to an utterance in a source language.

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Learning disability

Learning disability is a classification that includes several areas of functioning in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors.

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Mental health

Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.

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Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education (see also Pearson PLC) is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well as directly to students.

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Pearson plc

Pearson plc is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality.

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Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further their education.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Social studies

In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Standardized test

A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner.

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State school

State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.

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Territories of the United States

Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions directly overseen by the United States (U.S.) federal government.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals (staff members and administrators).

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The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome (TS or simply Tourette's) is a common neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic.

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Trademark

A trademark, trade mark, or trade-markThe styling of trademark as a single word is predominantly used in the United States and Philippines only, while the two-word styling trade mark is used in many other countries around the world, including the European Union and Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth jurisdictions (although Canada officially uses "trade-mark" pursuant to the Trade-mark Act, "trade mark" and "trademark" are also commonly used).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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Visual impairment

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Educational_Development

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