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EdUp Extra: How 1M Test Takers Achieve 90% College Persistence Without Seat Time - with CT Turner, CEO, GED Testing Service

CT Turner, CEO · GED Testing Service

Oct 28, 2025 39 min
EdUp Extra: How 1M Test Takers Achieve 90% College Persistence Without Seat Time - with CT Turner, CEO, GED Testing Service

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What this conversation answers

  • 01

    How does a proficiency based program serve 1 million test takers yearly & achieve 85.5% semester to semester college persistence?

  • 02

    What happens when a 39 year old single mom with an autistic son uses GED to enter nursing school & get off Medicaid?

  • 03

    How does GED serve over 90 countries, including refugees born in camps who use the credential as their only pathway out?

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It's YOUR time to #EdUp 

In this episode, part of our EdUp Extra series, & sponsored by the 2026 InsightsEDU Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 17-19,

YOUR guest is CT Turner, CEO, GED Testing Service 

YOUR cohost is Darius Goldman, Founder & CEO, Career-Bond

YOUR host is ⁠⁠Elvin Freytes

  • How does a proficiency based program serve 1 million test takers yearly & achieve 85.5% semester to semester college persistence?
  • What happens when a 39 year old single mom with an autistic son uses GED to enter nursing school & get off Medicaid?
  • How does GED serve over 90 countries, including refugees born in camps who use the credential as their only pathway out?

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