Back in his native Mexico, Sergio Salazar went to the university in Saltillo and became an architect. Those credentials didn’t mean much when he came to the United States in the 1980s. He didn’t speak ...

Big changes to the way the GED exam is scored will make it easier for people to pass — two years after the test underwent a massive overhaul that led to steep drops in the number of students taking it ...

Tri-City residents are taking longer to earn a GED and fewer are trying to finish it in a year since a new version was released last January. Columbia Basin College instructors and administrators said ...

About 69 percent of Nevada’s GED test-takers passed the high-school equivalency exam last year, according to a report released this month. Although Nevada's pass rate is on par with the national ...

Tahare McFarlin is desperate to get her GED. She’s 37, working part time at Walmart and struggling with her bills, but she has dreams for another kind of life. She hopes to become a medical assistant ...

After he lost his manufacturing job this year, Eduardo Asencio of Allentown realized he could no longer put off getting his GED high school diploma. Now the 38-year-old Costa Rican immigrant is in a ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Five months after officials revamped the GED exam to better reflect high school proficiency, fewer people are taking and passing the test across the USA, according to the education ...

The number of people who passed the GED—the high school equivalency test long seen as a “good enough diploma”—plummeted this year. About 86,500 people passed the new test in 2014, compared with ...