ACT to Invest in ProExam, an Innovator in Noncognitive Assessment and Professional Credentialing

05/01/2020
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“Education and workplace success require a holistic set of skills, including cognitive and noncognitive skills,” said ACT Chief Executive Officer Marten Roorda. “This investment will allow ACT to tap into ProExam’s expertise in noncognitive assessment, credentialing and consulting. Our goal is to connect noncognitive assessment, which ProExam understands as well as anyone in the world, […]

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California Refuses District Request to Use SAT Instead of State Test

04/30/2020
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(Education Week)  By Catherine Gewertz. California’s Long Beach school district grabbed an opportunity offered by the Every Student Succeeds Act: It asked the state for permission to use the SAT college-entrance exam instead of the state’s required Smarter Balanced test in high school. The state said no, becoming the first in the country to reject […]

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Regroup After an Early Admission College Rejection

04/14/2020
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(US News) By Brian Witt — There are two potential advantages to early decision and early action. If it succeeds, you gain entry to your first-choice college with a single application. If not, you gain valuable data that will improve your regular admissions chances. If you fall into the second group and find yourself having to scramble, don’t […]

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ACT, SAT becoming standard across state, some question Ohio mandate.

04/10/2020
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(Toledo Blade)  By Vanessa MaCray. Ready, set, bubble. High school juniors across Ohio will take an ACT or SAT college-entrance exam this spring to fulfill a state mandate that requires public school districts and charter schools to give one of the two tests to nearly all 11th graders. This year’s junior class is the first […]

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Nearly 40,000 people applied to Harvard this year — experts say it’s harder than ever to get into elite schools

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(Business Insider) By Abby Jackson —  Harvard College received 39,494 applications for the Class of 2021.  That’s the most applications in the history of the school. The ever-increasing number of applicants at elite schools elicits the question of whether it’s more difficult to get into elite schools today than ever before. Former Ivy League admissions directors have […]

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