Adults who take the General Educational Development Test, or GED, in states that require practice tests or other forms of preparation pass at higher rates than test takers in other states, according ...

Friends of Literacy has been in the Knoxville area for about 25 years helping people from all backgrounds earn a GED or HiSET. The organization also helps the one in twelve adults who can't read or ...

The General Educational Development, or GED test, which gives those who did not complete high school the opportunity to earn their high school credential, is changing in 2014. The current version, ...

Learn2Earn, an initiative started by Mayor Ashley Swearingin is working to help people complete their GED. The adult schools and a number of career colleges are now offering GED programs. But what do ...

For Glenna T. Wilson, landing the jobs was the easy part. It was keeping them that proved to be more difficult. She was a high school dropout, with no skills to speak of, and had little exposure to ...

For nearly a decade, Sister Sandra Franzen has helped detainees waiting trial at the Will County Adult Detention Facility prepare to take the GED test. Franzen decided to pursue a teaching career at ...

Classes are back in session for Snohomish County’s schools, with about 115,000 students continuing their paths to graduation, college or other training, careers and meaningful lives in their ...

The GED is sometimes called the largest high school in the world. Dropouts think of it as a second chance to move up in the world. But research shows, it might not work. On a drizzly morning, Jorge ...

Henrico County's Evergreen Packaging shut down in May, and 51-year-old Preston Clark has been looking for a job ever since. "Everywhere I go, they ask for a high school diploma or GED," he said. That ...

In Washington, high school equivalency can be earned using the General Educational Development tests, a set of four tests in mathematics, language arts, social studies and science. Passing those tests ...