Even though the deadline is still a year away, Nell Boyd, 56, already feels the mounting pressure to retake and pass the math portion of the high school general equivalency exam. "The frustration and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For 26-year-old Sequoia Dennis, the days leading up to Dec. 19 looked like this: Get up, go to math class, eat lunch, go to math class, come home and do more math. Dennis, of Allentown, was getting ...
The GED will soon attempt to measure college readiness as well as being the learning equivalent of a high-school diploma, thanks to an upgrade the GED Testing Service hopes will make it a substitute ...
The test’s developers say they changed it to align it with the Common Core and better reflect what students currently learn in high school. The GED is revised regularly; the previous overhaul was in ...
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 ...