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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Mon Oct 6, 2014, 12:15 PM Oct 2014

New Jersey libraries offering high school degrees

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Jersey-libraries-offering-high-school-degrees-5803852.php

Adults will be able to get online high school degrees — paid for with scholarships — through a new program being launched by the New Jersey State Library....

Nearly 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?!

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New Jersey libraries offering high school degrees (Original Post) KamaAina Oct 2014 OP

1 in 8 do not have a high school diploma? yeoman6987 Oct 2014 #1

Yet, if you do have one, Trillo Oct 2014 #5

Heck that is with a Bachelors Degree to yeoman6987 Oct 2014 #6

Well, Camden and Trenton are on the list. malthaussen Oct 2014 #2

Seems to me they should be awarded by need... theHandpuppet Oct 2014 #8

Off topic, but when did High School diplomas become "degrees?" MineralMan Oct 2014 #3

Good question. linuxman Oct 2014 #4

Hell, when I went to school we didn't have kindergarten theHandpuppet Oct 2014 #9

Around the time plumbers became professionals? malthaussen Oct 2014 #10

I hope this spreads tabbycat31 Oct 2014 #7

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. 1 in 8 do not have a high school diploma?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 12:46 PM

Oct 2014

That is astonishing to me in 2014!

Trillo

(9,154 posts)

5. Yet, if you do have one,

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 01:26 PM

Oct 2014

you still only qualify for minimum wage.

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

6. Heck that is with a Bachelors Degree to

Reply to Trillo (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 02:35 PM

Oct 2014

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.

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