HAMPTON — GED administrators are piloting an online system that could replace the paper-and-pencil test. The GED Testing Service is paying up to $175 for people to take a computerized Official ...

In 2013, 18,474 high-school dropouts in Washington state took a wide-ranging exam known as the GED to earn a high-school certificate. About 86 percent — nearly 16,000 — passed. For years, passing that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clark County School District officials are rushing to get students preparing for the General Educational Development (GED) exam through the test before it is phased out later this month. A new ...

The current paper version of the GED test will expire at the end of this year. In January 2014, a new computer-based General Educational Development test series will be introduced in the United States ...

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 ...

Zachary Olkewicz is not your ordinary high school dropout. During his senior year at Burbank High, Olkewicz found himself caring for his ailing father while attending school day and night to make up ...

No one seems to know exactly how it happened, but part of the test scores of 90 people who took the high school general equivalency diploma (GED) exam at Harper College in May have disappeared.

Hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts hoping to earn an equivalency diploma will have to pass a more challenging GED test that is being designed to improve the prospects of low-skilled workers ...