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The Adult Basic Skills Student Tracking System™ is a web-based application that allow Adult Basic Skills administrators to track participants of the Adult Basic Skill services.
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The State Board has the responsibility for administering the Adult Basic Eduction Program for the state of Mississippi. This program is designed to;
- enable adults to acquire the basic education skills necessary for functional literacy;
- provide adults with sufficient basic education to enable then to benefit from job training and retaining programs and to retain productive employment so that they might more fully enjoy the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship; and
- enable adults who so desire to continue their education to at least the level of completion of secondary school.
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The Tests of General Educational Development (GED) are developed and
administered by the GED Testing Service of the American Council on Education.
Each year they provide close to one million adults with the chance to earn a
certificate or diploma that is widely recognized as the equivalent of a high
school diploma. Since 1942, when the GED program began, more than 12 million
adults have earned GED credentials. Among their names are some you may
recognize, such as Bill Cosby, Waylon Jennings, Mary Lou Retton, and Dave
Thomas.
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