After years of losses, the nonprofit ACT is moving the test into a for-profit corporation that will be majority owned by Nexus Capital Management. ACT Inc., the Iowa City-based nonprofit behind the ...

(This story has been updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) To test or not to test, that is the question. Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to adjust ...

ACT, the organization which administers its namesake exam, was purchased by the private equity firm Nexus Capital Management this month in a major shake-up for the standardized testing industry. The ...

The University of California will continue using a standardized-test-blind approach to admissions through at least 2025, according to a settlement reached between the University and plaintiffs Friday.

High school students' scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according ...

Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year's high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the ...

More than 80 percent of U.S. colleges and universities do not require applicants to take standardized tests like the SAT or the ACT. That proportion of institutions with test-optional policies has ...

This year the national average composite score on the ACT was 20.3, the lowest average score in more than a decade. The number of students who took the ACT in 2021 declined by 22% from the previous ...