One year after the launch of a major overhaul of the GED exam — the first since 2002 — the high school equivalency program has seen a sharp drop in the number of people who took and passed the test, ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to remove statistics about the decline in the passing rate on the GED and other high school proficiency tests in New Jersey. The Rutgers study included an ...

Three young women are going to take a test 90 miles away from home. Just south of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Jackie Esparza pulls over her maroon Dodge SUV on Interstate 25 to pose for a selfie with the ...

Derwin Williams sits in a study room at Project Learn, a nonprofit organization in Cleveland that offers adult-education programs, with sample questions for the GED before him on a computer screen.

The number of Texans who took GED tests declined by 21 percent from 2012 to 2016, a consequence of the test’s high cost and its difficulty, according to a new study released Monday. More test takers ...

The number of Texans taking and passing the GED exam, in order to get the equivalent of a high school diploma, is continuing to fall. That's the finding of a new study by the Center for Public Policy ...

Some 10,128 Georgians passed the GED graduation test last year, up from 9,842 in the 2016 fiscal year, Gov. Nathan Deal announced recently. Those who pass the GED earn the right to say they've got the ...

More and more Texans do not have a high school diploma or the GED equivalent. That's what a new report says that's been studying high school equivalency programs in the San Antonio and Austin areas ...