GED Testing Service, which runs the best-known high school equivalency test, said it will lower the passing score for the test beginning in March. The new score will also apply retroactively to those ...

Kiana Rucker dropped out of school when she was 15 years old to look after her younger brothers and sisters. Five years later she had a baby herself. For years, she relied mostly on food stamps, ...

The adult education program at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus celebrated its fall 2025 GED graduates with a ceremony ...

The General Educational Development program, or GED, is undergoing the biggest revamping in its 69-year history, driven by mounting recognition that young adults’ future success depends on getting ...

As young Americans marched off to fight the Nazi’s in World War II, millions traded their diploma for a draft card. It soon became clear that if a warrior was smart enough to liberate Europe, he was ...

In 1942, Congress lowered the draft age from 21 to 18. America had been fighting in World War II for nearly a year. The change made an additional 2.25 million young men available for the war effort.

Oxnard resident Daniel Govea, 25, knows the GED test he plans to take later this month is much more difficult than the one offered last year. But Govea, who dropped out of high school seven years ago, ...

The GED certificate, which is recognized by all states as the equivalent of a high school diploma, can be earned by taking the GED test in Spanish or French, as well as English. As debate over ...

District 214 Community Education will offer free registration and placement testing tomorrow, August 26, and Thursday, August 28, to those interested in getting their Illinois High School Equivalency ...

Tens of thousands of GED test takers who barely missed the cut may soon receive a diploma, after the company that oversees the test said this week it's lowering the minimum passing score. Since the ...

CAYCE, S.C. — A free GED program on the west side of Columbia is helping hundreds of students get better jobs and helping them turn their lives around. "Pastor Kenneth Taylor saw a tremendous need in ...