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.

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.

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 ...

Sitting inside the New Prospect Learning Lab, a free GED (General Educational Development) testing laboratory on Livernois Avenue in Deroit that offers GED prep and a host of other adult education ...

The number of people who earned a GED last year declined significantly, following the first major revamp of the high school equivalency test in over a decade. Critics of the updated exam point to a ...

The GED test underwent a major revision in 2014%2C becoming more difficult for students to pass. Adult education experts say it will now take many students far longer to prepare for the exam. Some%2C ...

The General Educational Development program, or GED, is undergoing the biggest revamping in its 69-year history, driven by mounting recognition that young adults’ future success depends on getting ...

Returning from protesting the Gates Foundation’s funding of corporate education reform, I have been wrestling with some questions about the goals for their project. The Gates Foundation’s Vicki ...

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, ...

Who benefits from a high school equivalency exam that judges nothing better than how well you'll do on the exam? Adult learners at a GED class held by The Dream Center, a California-based non-profit. ...