WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Five months after officials revamped the GED exam to better reflect high school proficiency, fewer people are taking and passing the test across the USA, according to the education ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The General Educational Development test, GED, referred to as the high school equivalency exam, was designed to help returning World War II veterans complete high school and use ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Pennsylvania's GED exam is getting a new look in the new year. The current GED or graduate equivalency degree exam is 5 parts in Pennsylvania, but Tim Eller a spokesman for the ...

The GED Testing Service, which offers the General Educational Development test in 40 states, reports about a 60 percent passing rate for students taking all four sections of its new computer-based ...

Ahead of the debut of the 2014 GED Test, which will be available only on computer, 22 states are already offering a computerized version of the GED exam, according to a news release issued by the GED ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When high school, plus the birth of her daughter, proved more than Cayla Cushman could handle, she went the route of many Coloradans for whom graduation ...

The new test eliminates the paper-and-pencil option%2C requiring students to use computers GED Testing Service is trying to align test to traditional high school standards The non-profit testing ...