The newly proposed Military PFAS Transparency Act would create a public online dashboard to track clean-ups of cancer-causing ...

The University of California recently stopped requiring the SAT and ACT test as part of its admissions process for California freshmen. But it may use a school-created test beginning in 2025. Palmieri ...

The bigger test still lies ahead. The Chips Act, enacted two years ago Friday, is the nation’s most audacious foray into industrial policy since World War II.

An ACT Assessment preparation book is seen, April 1, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. On July 15, Janet Godwin, CEO of the ACT test, announced that a pair of “fundamental” changes would be coming to ...

Students can now opt between several versions of the test: the ACT core exam (which includes reading, math and English), the ACT plus writing, the ACT plus science or the ACT plus science and writing.

The cost of the exam will also go down, Godwin told CNN in an email. Approximately 60% of students who graduated in 2023 took the ACT exam at least once, according to the organization.

In 2023, 1.9 million high school students took the SAT, while about 1.4 million took the ACT. That number could rise in 2024 as more students register to take the tests, which were made optional ...

Just under 1.3 million students took the ACT in calendar 2021, down from the two million who sat for the test in 2017. The number of test takers has since recovered slightly—to 1.4 million in 2023.

ACT test scores hit new 30-year low The average ACT test scores, which have been dropping for the past 6 years, was 19.5 out of 36 this year Associated Press Published October 11, 2023 2:07pm EDT ...

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 ...

Godwin said she doesn't believe those numbers will ever fully recover, partly because of test-optional admission policies. Of students who were tested, only 21% met benchmarks for success in ...