CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) — 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 was introduced along with two new competing tests. In 2014, two new high school equivalency exams that also incorporate some of those standards were introduced by other testing companies. All three tests require students desiring a diploma to show higher-level skills, such as writing essays using evidence they pull from reading materials they are given. The GED was created to help World War II veterans who dropped out of high school get their diplomas and go on to college, using the benefits available under the GI Bill. The nonprofit American Council on Education, which has owned the test since its inception, brought in for-profit Pearson Vue Testing to produce the new version.
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