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 ...

Sheba Lowe Brown of A+ Test Prep shares the answers to some common questions about the ACTs and SATs. I featured Sheba Lowe Brown a couple of weeks ago. The Durham mom of four is a former long-time ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Southwest Tennessee Community College will be hosting a free ACT prep workshop for high school students. The ...

When it comes time to apply to colleges, many high school students will find themselves asking how they can make their college applications stand out. Serious scholars applying to competitive schools ...

If you are planning on going to college soon, or have a child who is eyeing college admissions you know that the SAT & ACT test scores are very important in the admissions process. If you have done ...

Hours of drilling on ACT questions in Chicago high schools may be hurting, not helping, students’ scores on the college-admission exam, according to a study released today by a university-based ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The ACT and SAT exams are tests that high school students might get a bit nervous about. The new school year began for many the week of August 14— and the first ACT and SAT exams ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Failing the SAT or ACT tests to get into college is a fear of many college-bound students. In order to prepare for these tests, one option is to take test prep classes. These classes address not just ...

Taylor Swaak is a breaking news and education reporter for Newsweek with published work in Newsday and the Hartford Courant, as well as on CNN.com. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's ...