On a recent night at Seattle Central Community College, Carl Ellison solved basic math problems on a timed test his teacher gave the class as a warm-up. Ellison, who is 57 and homeless, has passed ...

His GED instructor, Deb Lovett, said if he’d taken the old GED, “there’s no question in my mind that he would have passed.” Nationwide, thousands of people appear to be in the same situation as ...