The GED no longer has a lock on the market for tests that serve as the equivalent of a high school degree. Three states have switched to new competito...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Several dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED high school equivalency test because of concerns that a new version...
Photo Credit: Brett Myers/Youth Radio By: Joshua Clayton In elementary school and junior high, I was a bad little boy. You could find me in the prin...
This isn't about having a choice of providers, but rather a choice about the future of adult education and preparing adults to earn family sustaining wages.
With a new mayor to be elected this year, who will take over in 2014, the city stands poised to take a much more aggressive effort to make its CTE programs not merely adequate, but to take a role as the innovation leader in the nation.
As it turns out, how people behave in one setting does not predict how they will behave in a very different setting.
Learning to read has changed my life. Now, it's easier to get around the city. You give me an address and I know how to get there. I don't have to worry about asking someone. I can pick up my Bible now and read it, or my newspaper. I might get stuck, but I can do it.
Shearwater is identifying children who were thrown away by broken systems, and giving them the grit and determination to metaphorically clean themselves off and try again.
The new GED test has the potential to leave thousands of D.C. adults behind. The price of the GED will effectively make it inaccessible for those who need it the most: low-income and low-skilled adults.
Every year, roughly 750,000 high school dropouts try to improve their educational and employment prospects by taking the General Educational Developme...
A relatively quick, cheap, and instructionally legitimate change to state law could raise graduation rates without lowering standards.
Priscilla Santiago of Bridgeport, Conn., is a mother of three, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of five. At 63, she was also one of the olde...
After realizing that there was a good chance Hope would grow up to be smarter than him, Jimmy decided to go back and get his GED on "Raising Hope" (Tu...
The urban problems of this decade are about black and Latino young men lacking skills and education and not connected to work. The numbers in this category in New York City are staggering.
Katherine Dawkins is celebrating a week of graduations. A great-great-grandniece graduated from high school last Sunday. Her great-granddaughter grad...
WATERLOO -- Bob Speed is finally getting his GED, more than 50 years after dropping out of high school. The 70-year-old Dunkerton man will be joined ...
It's graduation season. High school seniors will be getting diplomas, tossing caps into the air. But many students don't make it that far and drop out...
NEW YORK -- Cami Anderson has a big challenge. In her first press conference since being named the new superintendent of Newark, N.J.'s largely faili...
In a time of unparalleled budget cuts and competition for limited resources, it is important to identify why this group should benefit from a privilege-like early/priority enrollment.
Every day on HuffPost, we're highlighting one 'Greatest Person'- an exceptional individual who is confronting the country's economic and political cri...
About seven out of 10 job openings in Colorado will require applicants to have a post-high school education by 2018, according to a recent report from...
Employers are gravitating towards workers over 65 for very good reasons. But what may be good for employers may be seriously bad for the city and nation.
The Tea Party right wing managed to derail Van Jones' position as White House environmental adviser, but has done nothing to dampen hope for the Green Economy.
Now, in this recession, everyone has to reevaluate how this "Summertime" is going to play out, or else we all may be shocked when things don't work out.
Many New Yorkers are going to be flattened by a form of chronic joblessness never before seen in the United States.
