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, ...

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 ...

The GED test is getting an overhaul. The exam has historically served adults who have fallen through the cracks of the educational system. NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Anthony Carnevale, director of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

An alternative education that makes sense would go beyond test prep Share The GED, a crucial test for people who did not finish high school, is falling further out of reach from those who need it most ...