At first glance, calls from members of Congress to restore academic merit in college admissions might sound like a neutral policy. In our view, these campaigns often cherry-pick evidence and mask a ...

We are seeing the consequences of SAT- and ACT-optional admissions policies at schools such as the University of California ...

The SAT, accepted by almost all of the nearly 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S., may have some growing competition. The Classic Learning Test (CLT) has proved quite the competitor against ...

We need to let students slow down. Critical cognition, by definition, takes time. By Tim Donahue The university joins a small but growing number of elite colleges requiring SAT or ACT scores in ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. As legions of high school students prepare to spend long Saturday mornings this fall taking the SAT or ACT college-entrance tests, a national commission is ...

Standardized tests are simply thermometers. Yet they’ve been abandoned by many. In his book Measuring Up, Daniel Koretz reminds readers that the reason we call something a “standardized test” is ...

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 ...

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...