Iriel Washington needed to pass four tests in the last two days of 2013. She still doesn't know if her months of studying were enough. After spending four years in and out of federal prison, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a state where 14 percent of adults haven’t graduated high school, the GED test is a lifeline for many Mississippians hoping to improve their job skills and better their lives. But changes made to ...

More than 32,000 adults in Stark County — an amount roughly the size of Massillon — don't have a high school diploma. And starting this year, it may be harder than ever for them to get the equivalent ...