Thanks again to Tim Phillians for fowrwarding this message from Steve Steurer:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Below please find a two page summary of the GED 2014 correctional education national survey that was conducted by CEA and GED Testing Service in late 2011 and early 2012. The results were summarized and presented in a workshop at the CEA Leadership Forum in Columbia, Maryland on April 1, 2012. In the next month or so John Dowdell of Ashland University, Daphne Atkinson of GED Testing Service and I will complete and publish the full report and email to each of you sometime in June.

In the meantime, a CEA GED Super Committee, composed of several members of the Council of Directors of Correctional Education led by Chairperson Susan Lockwood as well as certain large jail education program directors, the federal Bureau of Prisons and Corrections Corporation of America have been working diligently to bring important issues to the GED Testing Service for resolution. Nicole Chestang, Executive Vice President of GED Testing Service, and I met today over the telephone and laid out a design for future GED webinars and training. Within a week or two Susan Lockwood and I will talk again with Nicole and her staff to design correctional education specific webinars for mid-June. We will address the major issues brought up by the survey and the GED Super Committee. Watch for an email announcing the webinar. In addition, CEA and the GED Testing Service will pull together key correctional and adult education trainers in Washington, DC to design a complete GED 2014 training package for teachers and administrators of adult education programs in the free community as well as incarcerated adults and juveniles. We hope to announce more about the training opportunities at the webinar and in subsequent emails.

Given all that is going on with computer-based GED testing CEA plans to be there for you from today and into 2014 as the new GED test is implemented. Please feel free to contact me or Susan Lockwood as we move forward.

Steve

Stephen J. Steurer, Ph.D.,
Executive Director
Correctional Education Association
8182 Lark Brown Road Suite 202
Elkridge, MD 21075
tel 443-459-3081
fax 443-459-3088