With many students returning to school in September, educators are preparing their classes for the new year and getting ready for the standardized testing that takes place annually. These standardized ...

The farcical practice of annual state testing for grades 3-11 (in most states) began in the early 2000’s with the mandates of No Child Left Behind. This unnecessary tradition has continued in spite of ...

Earlier this month, President Trump signed a memorandum requiring increased transparency in higher education admissions. The purpose of the order is to ensure that universities are admitting students ...

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(STACKER) — In April, Harvard University announced that it would again require prospective undergraduates to submit either SAT or ACT scores as part of their applications for fall 2025, a significant ...

After making standardized tests optional for admissions during the pandemic, elite universities like Dartmouth, MIT, Yale and, most recently, Brown have recognized ...

Last Thursday two highly selective institutions landed on opposite sides of the standardized testing debate. The University of Michigan formally adopted a test-optional policy, four years after ...

Re “Don’t Ditch Standardized Tests. Fix Them,” by Jessica Grose (Opinion, nytimes.com, Jan. 17): Ms. Grose is incorrect when she says, “Without standardized testing, we won’t know where to put the ...

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Before the pandemic, there were already about 1,000 four-year colleges that were test-optional. And almost overnight, all American colleges became test-optional. But over the last few years, ...

Last week the U.S. Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter that warned colleges and universities that they could lose federal funding if they considered race in any of a broad range ...

Stanford University faculty and students have debated standardized testing as the prestigious higher education institution considers reinstating the test in the admissions process. "The tests ...