To better serve our customers and more effectively align with our strategic goals, ACT has fully integrated the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA) as an official part of the company. “By bringing NCEA fully on board as an official part of ACT, we round out the family of integrated ACT solutions, creating a broader [...]

An Oklahoma summer academy program is providing a life-changing college and career experience for middle and high school students across the state. It’s also helping increase the percentage of Oklahoma students who meet ACT College Readiness Benchmarks in mathematics and science. And it’s introducing them to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers, which are [...]

An international nonprofit organization is using ACT solutions in Honduras to increase the quality of the country’s workforce to meet employer demands for higher skill levels. Over the next two years, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) will test up to 15,000 individuals in Honduras with the Spanish-language version of ACT WorkKeys® assessments and expects to [...]

Kevin Reaves needed a way to take the skills he learned in the military and translate them to a civilian job. Taking the ACT WorkKeys® assessments and receiving an ACT National Career Readiness Certificate™ (NCRC) has helped him do just that.

Steve Perry challenged ACT at the organization’s annual meeting: build a smarter test or risk becoming like a compass in a world of GPS. Perry, founder and principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut, is on a mission to transform the nation’s schools into places that provide meaningful educational experiences for all students. [...]

The United States needs a “jolt” to get the economy back on track. “We have a catch-22 situation,” said Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. “We don’t have workers to attract high-skill, high-wage industries, and we don’t have high-skill, high-wage industries giving workers incentive to obtain the [...]

As participants gathered to celebrate ACT’s 50 years of helping people achieve education and workplace success, they agreed that we’ve come a long way since 1959—and we can go much further. ACT’s board of directors, advisory board members, and staff, plus state representatives and distinguished guests, met October 19–20 in Iowa City for ACT’s 50th [...]