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 ...

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 ...

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 offered in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The GED test underwent a major revision in 2014%2C becoming more difficult for students to pass. Adult education experts say it will now take many students far longer to prepare for the exam. Some%2C ...

The General Education Development test, or GED, is getting an overhaul next year. Starting in January, those seeking high school equivalency certificates will only be able to take GED tests on ...

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 ...