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 ...

Not too long ago, famous lipstick wearer Lauren Boebert inadvertently reminded people that she has a GED while pushing back at the idea of student loan forgiveness. Over the weekend, Boebert ...

As our story on the overhaul of the GED test suggests, the new test will be substantially different. It will have to be administered via computer — in part because of the complexity of the design of ...

Every year, roughly 750,000 high school dropouts try to improve their educational and employment prospects by taking the General Educational Development test, or GED, long considered to be the ...

Here’s a quick way to see the trend lines before and after the 2014 debut of the new GED: On the new General Educational Development exam, a passing score is 145 out of 200. In 2017, average scores ...

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, ...

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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 ...

CAYCE, S.C. — A free GED program on the west side of Columbia is helping hundreds of students get better jobs and helping them turn their lives around. "Pastor Kenneth Taylor saw a tremendous need in ...