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06/23/2020
One of the greats of comedy, Red Skelton, was coached by his wife to earn his High School Equivalency, now GED.
Red Skelton - Wikipedia Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedy entertainer. He was best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. He has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
06/17/2020
Black Lives Matter. Not a happy ending to every story.
Before the Law Kalief Browder was accused of taking a backpack. The courts took the next three years of his life.
05/28/2020
Mary Daly, PhD, dropped out of high school, read the rest.
She Dropped Out of High School. Now She’s President of the San Francisco Fed. Mary Daly, the head of research at the San Francisco Fed, will take over as the bank’s president on Oct. 1.
04/20/2020
Denied a diploma, April Dunn made sure other students with disabilities had options. She died of covid-19. Dunn, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and cerebral palsy, championed equal rights for society’s most marginalized and was the driving force behind a bill to provide alternative graduation paths for students with disabilities. "To put it simply," a colleague said, "she’s the most determi...
04/04/2020
https://www.cfr.org/blog/after-pandemic-can-united-states-finally-retool-twenty-first-century
After the Pandemic: Can the United States Finally Retool for the Twenty-First Century?
04/04/2020
During coronavirus pandemic, Omega School uses virtual technology to help students get their GED/HSEDs While Omega School is technically closed due to COVID-19 until authorities allow it to reopen, the work that they do - helping adults prepare for and obtain a GED/HSED credential and education - is only ramping up. “Not too much has changed here. We’re connecting with students, we’re getting s...
10/22/2019
Alumni Profile: Alumnus found renewed love for education in GED program - Seminole State College
Brandi Carlile dropped out of high school to follow her passion. GED or no, a person can be a huge success. Here's a song that you are bound to respect if not love.
01/28/2019
Walt Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the Army but was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for a year to drive an ambulance. He moved back to the U.S. in 1919.
12/14/2018
Mary Daly, a US Fed Chief, earned her GED and her PhD.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/san-francisco-fed-chief-mary-daly-on-the-virtuous-cycle-of-economics