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DENNIS A. SCHAEFER, EUGENE...
...perhaps topping the 1.99 million buys to see Mike Tyson bite off a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear in 1997. Arena tickets sold out in three hours, generating $19 million, a Nevada boxing record. "This could be the night that saves boxing," says Richard Schaefer, CEO of De La Hoya's company, Golden Boy Promotions, which is staging the clash...
...simple exam. It's a battery of five tests - reading, writing, science, social studies and math - that stretch out over 7.5 hours. It's taxing enough that Lyn Schaefer, the GED Testing Service's Director of Test Development, says that despite the test takers' 70% pass rate, six out of 10 enrolled high school seniors who do trial runs of the exam wouldn't be able to pass the real thing. Granted, the real test-takers have weeks or months of test prep for the GED that trial test-takers lack, but higher education has noted the rigor...
...Still, Lynn Schaefer says that programs like Virginia's 2004 Race to the GED, which promotes the test at NASCAR events, have expanded educational opportunity and access to all Americans. Carmon Cunningham, vice president of the Jobs For the Future, a low-income and minority advocacy group, agrees that the sheer number of people taking the GED shows the great desire among the dropout population to find a path back to a 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...
...test takers took a dip after the test was redesigned in 2002, but has been rising ever since. But even the makers of the GED say that its success is in many ways a sad statement on the ability of schools to keep students. As the ACE's Schaefer puts it, "We always say how wonderful it would be, how delighted we'd be, if we could close the door on the GED because students are staying in school. "But that just isn't happening...