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As California and other states work to define what “college and career readiness” means, a new study finds that a more reliable predictor of whether a student does well in college is his or her high ...

Start incorporating more reading into your daily routine, even if it’s only an extra 20 minutes each day. While there’s only one “reading” section on the ACT, the rest of the test also requires ...

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Good ACT scores are important to many college-bound high school juniors and seniors. Preparation for the exam can stress our your student, but you can help ease the burden with some of these tried-and ...

Eleventh-grade students and teachers are spending extraordinary amounts of class time preparing for ACT, but the intense focus on test strategies and item practice is hurting, not helping, performance ...

The study, by the Assessment Solutions Group, focuses on one slice of the testing question: whether it’s a good idea to let some districts substitute college-entrance exams for state tests. But the ...