Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Mexico will soon offer free high school equivalency tests to qualifying residents. (Getty Images) One hurdle to achieving a ...

Dec. 5—Jaeden Lust did not enjoy the environment of high school. Even when she tried a virtual campus setting offered by the state's largest public school district, the 18-year-old grew tired of the ...

DANBURY -- More than 1,200 Connecticut residents, including 15 in the Danbury area, passed last year's tests to earn a high school equivalency diploma, granting them access to community college and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- GED Testing Service (GEDTS) will be used by the state for administering high school equivalency tests beginning in January. New York had been using the TASC (Test Assessing ...

For some Tennessee residents, a new state voucher waiving the $75 high school equivalency test (HiSET for short, a GED equivalent) will remove, at least, the monetary barrier to getting high school ...

Parkway Area Adult Education and Literacy offers free classes for adults to help them prepare for the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET, formerly GED); improve reading, writing and math skills; ...

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 ...

The new GED examination, which is considered tougher than the high-school-equivalency test it replaced because it demands more analysis and asks fewer multiple-choice questions, drew 40 percent fewer ...

The idea of letting people take a test to show their proficiency in the high school curriculum goes back to World War II, when it allowed people returning from the war to avoid further delays in their ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) -- On Friday, October 4, 2013, the Nevada State Board of Education approved three new high school equivalency assessments that will be used throughout Nevada ...