Each year, roughly 750,000 high school dropouts try to improve their prospects by taking the General Educational Development test, or GED, long ... In Today's Economy, How Far Can A GED Take You?

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 ...

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 ...

The GED test underwent a major revision in 2014%2C becoming more difficult for students to pass. Adult education experts say it will now take many students far longer to prepare for the exam. Some%2C ...

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 ...

Fewer people in the state are getting their GED because of more rigorous standards and the move to a computer-based test, according to a report released Tuesday by the Kentucky Center for Economic ...

HUDSON, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Columbia-Greene Community College has opened a new General Educational Development (GED) testing site in their Professional Academic Center (PAC) on their campus. The site will ...

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 ...

It’s pretty well established by now that despite its nickname, the GED is not a “high school equivalency test.” Young people who earn a General Educational Development certificate don’t fare as well ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect start time for TASC test administrations in New York state. They were offered beginning in January 2014. The transition last year to a ...

Austin Jones, a 20-year-old high school dropout, got a pleasant surprise last week. He had struggled to pass the math portion of the four-part General Educational Development test, or GED. On his ...