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 ...

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 ...

High school dropouts around the country preparing to take the General Education Development test are in for a major change to the high school equivalency exam, the first change in more than a ...

HOUSTON - The new GED exam adopted in 2014 is making it much more difficult to graduate and fewer students nationwide are now taking the exam. There's no doubt that earning a GED is something to be ...

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 ...