In November 2013, the 37-year-old city man started studying for his GED. He knew a new version of the four-part test was coming out in January 2014, but he decided not to rush things by taking the ...

• History: More than 17 million people have earned a GED credential since 1943. • Current cost: In Spokane it is $15 for each of the five sections of the test: mathematics, reading, writing, science ...

COLUMBUS — Those working toward earning their high school equivalency diploma are encouraged to finish before the end of the year or risk having to start over again. The General Educational ...

When asked to define “culture hearth,” Community High School student D.J. Reiter said he didn’t know. Asked if he could guess at the definition based only on the phrase, he said he still had no idea.

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 ...

Time is up for Salem test-taker Inafa Barsukoff, who was hoping to earn the equivalent of a high school diploma before January. Barsukoff was about 40 points shy of passing the General Educational ...

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 ...

Ohio residents taking the new computer-based GED test beginning in January will no longer have to front the anticipated $120 price tag due to an addition in the state budget. Beginning Jan. 2, 2014, ...