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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. Janet Godwin, CEO of ACT, recently announced changes to the ...

Few aspects of the college application process get the blood pumping more than standardized tests. Even though I wasn’t the one filling in little ovals with a No. 2 pencil, I’ll admit to stressing a ...

The length of the ACT college admissions test will be slashed for some test-takers as soon as next year, the exam company announced this week. The test will ask fewer questions and last up to an hour ...