The American Council on Education and Great Britain-based Pearson, one of the world’s largest publishing and education companies, has developed a new GED (General Education Development) Test. GED ...

Across the state and nation, adults are racing to earn their GED high school equivalency certificates by December — or start all over again with tougher, computerized tests next year. The process to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the state and nation, adults are racing to earn their GED high school equivalency certificates by December — or start all over again with tougher, computerized tests next year. The process to ...

America’s largest high school is not a building but a test. The General Educational Development test is a seven-hour exam that allows high school dropouts to show they are equivalent to high school ...

A more expensive and tougher test seems to be keeping people from going after their GED, at least for now. Enrollment and participation levels for General Educational Development tests and classes ...

This is an excerpt of On Assignment, education writer Theresa Harrington’s blog on Contra Costa County schools. Read more and post comments at IBABuzz.com ...

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — People looking to get their high school equivalency will soon be taking a Canadian-made test. The Canadian General Education Development (GED) exam series is ending on May 3.