For high school dropouts trying to complete their education, the GED test may seem like the final step. The reality is it's probably closer to the middle, said Marcel Kielkucki, who directs high ...

The numbers suggest "the GED testing program does little good for the substantial majority of its takers in generating economic opportunity directly and in opening the door to post-secondary education ...

Had he not passed the GED last year, John Baker says, “I’d still be looking for work.” In 2010, Baker was unemployed. He and his family moved to the Roaring Fork Valley from Dolores so that his sons ...

MONTGOMERY — For years Irene Zuniga would periodically open up a GED study book and soon after close it in frustration. “It was just too hard,” the 45-year-old mother of four from Montgomery said.

The Vancleave Public Library has received a $2,000 federal grant to buy ebooks, DVDs and print study guides to help people study for their GED high school equivalency test. The materials are available ...

Sharee Davis talks to Crystal Jordan, one of the students in her GED test prep class at the Eastside Workforce Center in Fort Worth in January 2014. Jordan dropped out of school in the 8th grade. More ...

A Mexican Consulate program allows undocumented immigrants to attend GED prep classes Zahide Betancourt jumped at the opportunity when it arrived Nine locations in the state of Arizona serve as Plazas ...

Although a growing number of high school dropouts are taking the GED, most who pass the exam discover that it doesn’t help them much in finding improved economic opportunities or completing ...

Zahide Betancourt holds her textbooks in front of Wilson Community Center in Phoenix, where she takes a GED prep course. Photo by Cassie Ronda/PIN Bureau Zahide Betancourt wakes up at 5 a.m. every ...