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About the GED Academy

About the GED® Academy

Michael Ormsby President

“America’s educational system fails to educate 30% of its students. Of the 39 million people who don’t have a high school diploma, only 1% get a GED high school equivalency diploma.

“With numbers like these, the adult education system is clearly broken. It’s not providing the essential literacy people need to earn a living and support their families. I think it’s time for someone to do something.”

Education is a right, not a privilege.

Education is a right, not a privilege.

We believe everyone deserves and has the right to an essential education -- an education that opens doors of opportunity for work, happiness, and prosperity. Even more important, education should give people the ability to think clearly about the issues and problems in their lives. We believe the true purpose of education is to free people from the confines of poverty, ignorance, and misinformation.

Who We Are.

Who We Are.

Our staff of teachers, writers, and computer programmers are creating a radically different way for people to learn essential skills and knowledge. We are reinventing the way people are being educated. We are very serious about the right to a good education. Giving learners access to excellent and affordable educational opportunities is our goal. If we are falling short of this vision, we would appreciate your letting us know.

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Michael's Story

One-On-One Classroom Teaching?


Michael Ormsby President

Differentiated instruction in the classroom environment is an oxymoron. How can it be possible to authentically meet individual learning needs in a classroom full of different academic levels and experiences?

This is about to change. Education ecology will be going through very powerful changes in the next decade. Not just from the emergence of technology in the classroom, but much more fundamental than that. The most far-reaching change in education will be choice. This is the real power of the internet. And it will rock the very foundation of education just as it has altered the core of other long-standing institutions.

Already students are able to make choices for education beyond what is offered by traditional educational institutions. But choice brings something else with it, discrimination. Just as a music buyer can now buy the one music track they really want online instead of a whole CD of tunes that the record company wants them to buy, the student of the future will be able to choose the educational experience that truly meets their needs rather than what a school or teacher tells them they need. Educational content is going to move out of the exclusive control of the educational institution.

Our response as educators seems to be clear. We need to lead by creating instructional content for the internet that is dramatically superior to what currently exists and what's available in most classroom learning experiences. This is the challenge. Are you up to it?