In 2013, 18,474 high-school dropouts in Washington state took a wide-ranging exam known as the GED to earn a high-school certificate. About 86 percent — nearly 16,000 — passed. For years, passing that ...

For more than 70 years, the General Educational Development exam, or the GED, has been an important tool for those who didn't complete high school and for immigrants looking to make inroads into ...

HOUSTON - The new GED exam adopted in 2014 is making it much more difficult to graduate and fewer students nationwide are now taking the exam. There's no doubt that earning a GED is something to be ...

The GED test, for decades the brand name for the high school equivalency exam, is about to undergo some changes. On Thursday, an upgraded GED exam and two new competing equivalency tests offered in ...

The number of people taking high school equivalency exams in the U.S. plummeted — and the percentage who passed fell, too — in the year after a revamped, Common Core-inspired GED was introduced along ...

Changes to the exam include combining reading and writing to reduce the total number of sections from five to four; adding short answer response sections to the math, science and social studies ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When high school, plus the birth of her daughter, proved more than Cayla Cushman could handle, she went the route of many Coloradans for whom graduation ...

The GED Testing Service has decided to lower the passing score for its high-school-equivalency exam, a move brought on by data showing that students who passed the latest, tougher version of the test ...