ATLANTA — Thousands who failed the GED exam could retroactively receive their diplomas in a couple of months because the score required to pass the test will soon be lowered. The drop — from 150 to ...

Ericka Coleman remembers seeing a sign about General Educational Development (GED) classes at the library near her house in St. Paul, Minn. The 21-year-old dropped out of high school in one year shy ...

On a recent night at Seattle Central Community College, Carl Ellison solved basic math problems on a timed test his teacher gave the class as a warm-up. Ellison, who is 57 and homeless, has passed ...

Paty Cruz is working hard to complete her general equivalency diploma before the existing test is retired in January. “I’m trying to beat the baby,” said Cruz, a student at the Colorado Mountain ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Adults who”ve begun working toward their GED are being urged to finish up this year, before the test for a high school equivalency diploma changes and they have to start all over. GED ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

For example, 20-year-old Marco Cuzco, an immigrant from Ecuador who is waiting for the results from his recent Spanish GED test, transferred from a regular high school to the BOCES program last year ...

The new test eliminates the paper-and-pencil option%2C requiring students to use computers GED Testing Service is trying to align test to traditional high school standards The non-profit testing ...

The GED will soon attempt to measure college readiness as well as being the learning equivalent of a high-school diploma, thanks to an upgrade the GED Testing Service hopes will make it a substitute ...

At age 59, Rita Kowalski decided she wanted to use the computer for more than emailing her kids and looking up salmon recipes. Forty-two years after she dropped out of high school to start a family, ...