1.4 million students sat for the ACT in 2023, down from more than two million in 2017. ACT Inc., the Iowa City-based nonprofit behind the ACT, a standardized test used in college admissions, announced ...

At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course placement exam couldn’t solve for x in this equation: 7 + 2 = x + 6. A third couldn’t ...

The system’s academic senate is “revising its timeline” to comprehensively examine the role of college entrance exams, ...

The University of California Regents won't decide whether to bring back standardized tests for admissions until at least next ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (STACKER) — In April, Harvard University announced that it would again require prospective undergraduates to submit either SAT or ...

Vanderbilt University will be reimplementing a policy that requires standardize test scores for fall 2029 undergraduate ...

Regarding the Feb. 23 news article “Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission”: I commend Yale University and other institutions that, despite acknowledging the imperfections of ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted 4-3 Tuesday on a resolution that would allow 10 schools to opt out of standardized tests and test preparation beginning in the 2025-26 school year ...

Standardized testing has long been a contentious topic in the field of education. While the primary goal of standardized testing is to measure student achievement and set benchmarks for educational ...

This summer, New York City schools are preparing for a shift in reading instruction, and recent reports indicate that it’s not just for lower grades, but for high schools as well. One shift in ...