ACT Newsroom & Blog
Congratulations Class of 2021 Grads! What’s Next? Education Advocates Share College- and Career-Going Advice
May 27, 2021
Category:
COVID-19 |
Educator Resources |
Throughout the month, we’ve celebrated students’ decisions to pursue education and work plans post-high school. May has traditionally been...
How Students Can Dream, Plan, and Learn to See Setbacks as Set-Ups for Opportunity
May 26, 2021
Category:
Educator Resources |
Equity |
Florence Cooper dropped out of school at age 10. She worked in the cotton fields of South Carolina as a young girl. The only “textbook” avai...
ACT Celebrates Joplin’s Road to Economic Recovery Amid 10 Year Anniversary of Devastating Tornado
May 21, 2021
Category:
Press Release |
Workforce |
How Hope, Resilience, and a Dedication to Workforce Readiness Sparked ACT’s First Work Ready Community IOWA CITY, Iowa —On May 22, 2011, Jop...
What was it like learning during the pandemic? Students have spoken.
May 20, 2021
Category:
ACT Test |
COVID-19 |
Educator Resources |
Equity |
Policy |
Research |
We conducted an initial survey of high school students in late March of 2020, where students reported a broad range of experiences related ...
As Schools Plan for In-Person Learning, They Should Consider Safety Too
May 18, 2021
Category:
ACT Test |
COVID-19 |
Educator Resources |
Research |
Social and Emotional Learning |
After a school year like no other in recent history, students’ behavioral skill development, mental health, and academic learning opportunit...
‘Be Brave’ and ‘Do it For Yourself’: Career Success is Attainable at Any Age
May 13, 2021
Category:
ACT Test |
Equity |
My mother didn’t graduate high school. She got married to a handsome young man in Army flight school, who was soon deployed to Europe. She s...
What can you and ACT do to help students test for free?
May 11, 2021
Category:
ACT Test |
Educator Resources |
Equity |
Policy |
Research |
The ACT fee waiver program was designed to serve students from low-income families, a population that often struggles to access education-re...
Reviewing: A Review
May 06, 2021
Category:
Educator Resources |
Equity |
Guest Blog |
In the final blog of our three-part series on ACT content and fairness reviewers, Jennifer Johnson—a high school English teacher at Booker H...
Why Do So Many Fee-Waived ACT Registrations Go Unused?
May 04, 2021
Category:
ACT Test |
Educator Resources |
Equity |
Policy |
Research |
Too many students who use a fee waiver to register for a free ACT test do not test on their scheduled test date. As a nonprofit, mission-dri...
ACT Statement on President Biden's Joint Address to Congress
May 03, 2021
Category:
Policy |
Last week, President Biden addressed a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress and the American people to reflect on the accomplishments of the f...