Every year, roughly 750,000 high school dropouts try to improve their educational and employment prospects by taking the General Educational Development test, or GED, long considered to be the ...

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 ...

Clock is ticking on GED testing in Canada GED tests end in the spring, raising concerns about how adults will get their high school diploma or equivalent. Spencer Turcotte reports.

On May 3, General Education Development testing, more commonly known as the GED, will end in New Brunswick. The GED is an equivalency test for adults who did not complete high school. It will be ...

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Not too long ago, famous lipstick wearer Lauren Boebert inadvertently reminded people that she has a GED while pushing back at the idea of student loan forgiveness. Over the weekend, Boebert ...

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