CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. – 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 GED ...

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Students who have been unable to earn their high school diplomas have long used an alternative track to finish high school: the equivalency test. Now a few states are opening additional channels to ...

BOSTON (CBS) --- For the first time in more than half a century, Massachusetts adults taking a high school equivalency exam will not take the G.E.D. There's now a new exam, called the HiSet Exam.

A new service in Tennessee is allowing rural residents who lack high school diplomas to take high school equivalency tests in mobile units, according to a recent article in The Claiborne Progress. The ...

The number of New York City residents taking and passing the high school equivalency exam has plummeted, a new report reveals. According to the Center for an Urban Future, the tally of city residents ...

According to a new report by the Center for an Urban Future, the number of people taking high school equivalency exams on Long Island has dropped 31 percent from 2010 to 2015. The decrease is part of ...

Nevada will now accept passing scores from two new high school equivalency exams that will allow adult education students to graduate with a certificate akin to a high school diploma. For years, ...