In 2013, 18,474 high-school dropouts in Washington state took a wide-ranging exam known as the GED to earn a high-school certificate. About 86 percent — nearly 16,000 — passed. For years, passing that ...

WASHINGTON — The GED test, for decades the brand name for the high school equivalency exam, is about to undergo some changes. On Thursday, an upgraded GED exam and two new competing equivalency tests ...

EVERETT — It feels like a high-stakes game of Chutes and Ladders for thousands of people trying to improve their lives by earning a GED. Their academic climb could slide into nothingness at the end of ...

A more expensive and tougher test seems to be keeping people from going after their GED, at least for now. Enrollment and participation levels for General Educational Development tests and classes ...

Most people pursuing their GED — or high-school equivalency degree — know something about obstacles. Mesa County Libraries, though, has cleared the path to the GED with the recent announcement that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When high school, plus the birth of her daughter, proved more than Cayla Cushman could handle, she went the route of many Coloradans for whom graduation ...