Ohio Gov. John Kasich is urging his state to allow use of two high school equivalency tests in addition to the GED. If approved, the move would add to the shift that’s already underway to erode the ...

The new GED examination, which is considered tougher than the high-school-equivalency test it replaced because it demands more analysis and asks fewer multiple-choice questions, drew 40 percent fewer ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) — The number of people taking high school equivalency exams in the U.S. plummeted — and the percentage who passed fell, too — in the year after a revamped, Common Core-inspired ...

Results are in for the first year of New York’s new replacement for the G.E.D. The new test gradually phased in the national Common Core... Feb 16, 2015 — Results are in for the first year of New York ...

The number of New Jersey adults taking the high school equivalency test plunged from nearly 17,000 in 2013 to fewer than 9,000, both in 2015 and 2016, after changes made the exam harder and ...

The success rate for GED test-takers in Tompkins County who took practice exams was 69 percent (57 people out of 82) from July to December 2013, according to Michelle Candela-Jordan, the Adult Basic ...

(TNS) — The GED, the brand that for decades has been almost synonymous with a high school equivalency diploma, is no longer offered in Tennessee. The "general educational development" test created and ...

In this Oct. 22, 2013, photo, Kaylin Wainwright, right, works with student Natnael Gebremariam at a computer during a General Educational Development test preparation class at the Sonia Gutierrez ...

DANBURY -- More than 1,200 Connecticut residents, including 15 in the Danbury area, passed last year's tests to earn a high school equivalency diploma, granting them access to community college and ...

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