PBS

Is the new GED test an educational improvement or setback?

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 ...
NPR

GED Gets A Makeover To Keep Pace With Changing Workforce

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 ...
Marketplace

GED was never meant to be second-chance diploma

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PBS

Could you pass the GED? Take our quiz to find out

As our story on the overhaul of the GED test suggests, the new test will be substantially different. It will have to be administered via computer — in part because of the complexity of the design of ...
The Hechinger Report

GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Little is known ...
Education Week

GED Passing Rates Rise, But Fewer Students Take Exam After Redesign

Here’s a quick way to see the trend lines before and after the 2014 debut of the new GED: On the new General Educational Development exam, a passing score is 145 out of 200. In 2017, average scores ...
The Atlantic

The GED Test Is About to Get Much Harder, and Much More Expensive

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, ...
ZDNet

Can you go to college without a high school diploma or GED?

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Education Week

GED Lowers Passing Score, Tens of Thousands More Could Receive HS Credentials

The move, first disclosed Wednesday by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, will allow states to lower the passing score on the GED from 150 to 145. The GED Testing Service projected that if all states ...
USA Today

GED test going digital at nearly double the cost

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 ...
WLTX19

Free Cayce GED program helping hundreds turn their lives around

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 ...