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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Jersey-libraries-offering-high-school-degrees-5803852.phpNearly one in eight adults 25 or older in New Jersey does not have a high school degree, according to the U.S. Census....
The New Jersey State Library is using grants from the state government and the Clinton Global Initiative to offer online degrees through six libraries that won competitive grants of their own: Camden, Elizabeth, Long Branch, Scotch Plains, Somerset County and Trenton.
Students are to be screened before they are allowed in. After they enroll at libraries, they will be allowed to do online coursework anywhere.
Scotch Plains? Somerset County? (both wealthy, white suburbia) But no Newark, Jersey City or Paterson?!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)That is astonishing to me in 2014!
Trillo
(9,154 posts)you still only qualify for minimum wage.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Especially if you major in some throw away major...quite a few available that is for sure. Stunning that students want them.
Today, I would recommend most get a Masters Degree immediately after earning their Bachelor's. I waited 8 years to get mine and now think I probably lost 50 grand by waiting too long.
Everyone only has one chance in this life. Choose carefully!
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)It appears that the grants were awarded competitively, which is probably not the best way to go about it.
-- Mal
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)...so those districts with the lowest HS diploma rates get top priority.
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)I don't get that.
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Probably around the time they started commencement ceremonies for Kindergarteners.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I'm not sure if it was because we were behind the times or if our schools were too poor to have one.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)I totally missed that, by the way. I think I'm getting too used to reading nonsense!
-- Mal
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)Long Branch is in my neck of the woods, and glad to see they got this.
However, I hope it expands elsewhere in NJ (Newark).