TV & VIDEO - Aug. 31, 1987
Two Southern public TV systems are trying to help high-school dropouts catch up. Kentucky Educational Television and the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television have produced a 43-part program airing nationally called “GED on TV” to help adults pass the high school equivalency exam, the General Educational Development test. About 72 million Americans do not have high-school degrees, and that figure is growing by an estimated 1 million a year, according to the American Council on Education. Four years and $2 million went into “GED on TV,” with the Kentuckians handling the reading and math sections and Mississippi taking on the writing segment.
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