For 26-year-old Sequoia Dennis, the days leading up to Dec. 19 looked like this: Get up, go to math class, eat lunch, go to math class, come home and do more math. Dennis, of Allentown, was getting ...
On a recent night at Seattle Central Community College, Carl Ellison solved basic math problems on a timed test his teacher gave the class as a warm-up. Ellison, who is 57 and homeless, has passed ...
Across the state and nation, adults are racing to earn their GED high school equivalency certificates by December — or start all over again with tougher, computerized tests next year. The process to ...
When the new General Educational Development (GED) high school equivalency test took effect on Jan. 1 st, 2014, more than 40,000 Pennsylvanians were left stranded, with only portions of the old test ...
As he sits in a study room at Project Learn—a non-profit on Euclid Avenue that offers adult education programs—with sample questions for the General Education Diploma (GED) waiting on a computer ...
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) - 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 ...
Marquet Makupson will not need pencil and paper when he takes the new GED test next year. Starting in January, South Carolina GED test takers will take a new computerized exam. Makupson and others, ...
Several dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED high-school-equivalency test because of concerns that a new version coming out next year is more costly and will no longer be offered in ...
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 ...