Performance of GED Holders Enrolled at the University of Wisconsin's Thirteen Campuses: 1979-1985.

Educational second chance : a study of successful male college students who had formerly not completed high school

“…In response to feedback from the business community, the GED was rewritten in 2002 and passing scores raised with input from a number of corporations who hired GED recipients. These corporations had expressed dissatisfaction with the work habits of GED recipients (Tuck, 2012 their earning power is much closer to HSNCs than to that of High School graduates (Heckman & Kautz, 2014, Cameron & Heckman, 1993Kominski, 1990;Pawasarat & Quinn, 1994;Quinn, 1986).…”

“…The lack of the hoped-for success of EC male students has been published in the literature since at least 1986 (Cameron & Heckman, 1993;Kominski, 1990;Pawasarat & Quinn, 1994;Quinn, 1986). Quinn found that 85% of EC holders left state schools in Wisconsin before the second year and that they performed worse than the lowest 20% of high school graduates (Quinn, 1986). Is it due to a lack of academic information or as Heckman, Humphries, and Kautz (2014) hypothesize, is it a deficit in socioemotional skills that underlies both HSNC and later negative life measures?…”