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 ...

Derwin Williams sits in a study room at Project Learn, a nonprofit organization in Cleveland that offers adult-education programs, with sample questions for the GED before him on a computer screen.

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.

A glance at the winter issue of City Journal: Is the GED worth anything? The General Educational Development test (GED) is not the “high school equivalency diploma” that many of its recipients think ...

James felt like he lost half his high school career. A good student in the ninth and tenth grades, he came down with a series of unexplained illnesses during the summer, and entered junior year unable ...

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 ...

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, ...

More and more Texans do not have a high school diploma or the GED equivalent. That's what a new report says that's been studying high school equivalency programs in the San Antonio and Austin areas ...

One year after the launch of a major overhaul of the GED exam — the first since 2002 — the high school equivalency program has seen a sharp drop in the number of people who took and passed the test, ...