For generations, the path to a respected university followed a predictable, if stressful, script. But the 2025-2026 admissions cycle is shaping up to be a period of historic upheaval. A "perfect storm ...

Standardized testing is one of the most fixated upon and debated aspects of the college admission process. It is also one that generates great angst and skepticism among applicants and their ...

Generations of American teens have taken the SAT, a blood-pressure-raising multi-hour exam they are told could make or break their academic futures. The longest-enduring standardized college ...

Test creator Jeremy Tate called the bill's passage in Indiana "unreal." ...

TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - The ACT, a standardized test used for college admissions, is changing in the spring, and Central Texas instructors, college planners and school districts say the change could ...

Alexis Serrato flipped through the pages of her test packet, determined to get through the college entrance exam even though she felt like it was a moot point. It was her fourth ACT; still, it went no ...

Earlier this month, Dartmouth College announced that it would reactivate its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admission beginning with the class of 2029 applicants. Less than two ...

One of the changes to education that seems to have carried over from the Covid pandemic is a shift toward a "test-optional" college admissions process that de-emphasizes SAT and ACT scores. Many ...

Listening to the creator of a relatively new standardized college admissions test tell it, he’s all about “education rooted in truth, goodness and beauty.” And by that, he apparently means “white, ...

Can you make a better decision with less information? More specifically, can college admissions offices make better decisions without standardized test scores? In the last two decades, more and more ...

Is the move to making college applications “test-optional” hurting low-income kids and intensifying inequality? Credit: Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one ...

In recent years, higher education and the technological landscape have undergone dramatic change. Artificial intelligence, digital tools and new learning ...