As standardized testing for Ivy League and other U.S. colleges returns, families may wonder whether to trust the ACT and what its acquisition by ETS means for the future.

The testing giant ETS announced Tuesday that it will acquire college and career-readiness assessment company ACT—a move that could eventually have implications for the roughly 1.38 million students ...

Two years after Educational Testing Services lost its contract to administer the SAT, ETS has acquired ACT from a private equity firm. “Every student deserves a strong education, a fair shot at ...

Harvard University will extend for four years a policy begun soon after the coronavirus pandemic emerged that allows aspiring students to apply without SAT or ACT scores — a landmark development for a ...

Last week I testified before the U.S. Senate about workforce readiness in the age of AI. Senators wanted to know how Alabama — not a state most people associate with leading-edge tech education — had ...

The deal brings together two of the most influential assessment and measurement organisations in American education at a time when institutions, employers and policymakers are grappling with rapid AI ...

All 32 of the nation’s biggest banks passed the Federal Reserve’s annual “stress test” of the financial system, the central bank said Wednesday, a sign t ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act and subsequent iterations such as the SAVE America Act threaten to block millions of eligible American citizens from voting. Never in American ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly in the last two weeks stymied congressional GOP priorities on housing and national security, while demanding passage of a controversial voter-ID bill. Trump ...

Students shouldn’t expect immediate changes to ACT test-taking or scoring. More colleges are returning to requiring standardized test scores from applicants. The change is intended to help students ...

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