FAYETTEVILLE -- Anthony Smith didn't have a high school diploma when he was booked into the Washington County Detention Center just over a year ago, but he'll be leaving with the equivalent -- a GED - ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Back in his native Mexico, Sergio Salazar went to the university in Saltillo and became an architect. Those credentials didn’t mean much when he came to the United States in the 1980s. He didn’t speak ...

For many dropouts, especially those who are too old to return to the public K-12 system, the GED assessment has long been the main route to the high school credential that eluded them. But, come ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON Americans who passed part, but not all, of the GED test are rushing to finish the high school equivalency exam before a new version rolls out in January and their previous scores are wiped ...