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 ...

Ahead of the debut of the 2014 GED Test, which will be available only on computer, 22 states are already offering a computerized version of the GED exam, according to a news release issued by the GED ...

Participation in the GED testing program plunged by nearly 44 percent during the most recent recorded year, a drop-off that the exam’s sponsor attributes to an earlier rush by teenagers and adults to ...

Kaplan is Now the Official Partner for Live Online Prep for the GED ® test WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GED Testing Service and Kaplan Test Prep have partnered to deliver the market’s first-ever ...

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 ...

Kiana Rucker dropped out of school when she was 15 years old to look after her younger brothers and sisters. Five years later she had a baby herself. For years, she relied mostly on food stamps, ...

An overhaul of the GED to meet Common Core standards has made the high school equivalency test more rigorous and more expensive. As a result, fewer people are taking and passing it. Gwen Ifill gets ...

A revamped version of the national high school equivalency exam that tens of thousands of Californians take each year is making its debut across the state, bringing anxiety over its difficulty, new ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Pennsylvania's GED exam is getting a new look in the new year. The current GED or graduate equivalency degree exam is 5 parts in Pennsylvania, but Tim Eller a spokesman for the ...

Tens of thousands of GED test takers who barely missed the cut may soon receive a diploma, after the company that oversees the test said this week it's lowering the minimum passing score. Since the ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Five months after officials revamped the GED exam to better reflect high school proficiency, fewer people are taking and passing the test across the USA, according to the education ...