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The Classic Learning Test Takes Aim at the SAT–ACT Duopoly

The Classic Learning Test is unique among summative assessments in that it focuses entirely on classical texts. The floodwaters raged. Infuriated by the ceaseless clamor from the crowded city of ...
The Indianapolis Star

Indiana pushes a classics test while killing classics degrees | Opinion

Indiana legislators voted to put Plato and Augustine on a college entrance exam — while also voting to eliminate the degree programs in which students study Plato and Augustine. A new standardized ...
The College Fix

Classic Learning Test expands to more than 300 schools as alternative to SAT, ACT

The Classic Learning Test is being adopted by more states as another option for college admissions beside the ACT, SAT, and AP exams. Indiana became the latest on Thursday when Gov. Mike Braun signed ...
The Indianapolis Star

'Baked-in prejudices': Indiana House passes bill promoting conservative-linked ACT alternative

For decades, the ACT and the SAT have been the gatekeepers of college admissions, purporting to measure a student's aptitude in core subjects and producing a score that can mold a person's future. Now ...
The College Fix

Military academies now accept Classic Learning Test as alternative to ‘woke’ AP exams

More university admissions offices are now accepting an alternative to the SAT and ACT that focuses on classical philosophy and literature. It’s called the Classic Learning Test, and it’s based on ...
Austin American-Statesman

Could a new standardized test 'rooted in tradition' come to Texas schools?

Texas schools may soon use a new standardized test “rooted in tradition” and ethics to measure student performance. The Texas State Board of Education voted 9-4 last week to add the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Will the Classic Learning Test Shake Up College Admissions?

Beginning next month, a new test will join the SAT and ACT as an admissions option for prospective students applying to the United States’ elite service academies: the Classic Learning Test, an up-and ...
readlion

Classic Learning Test to challenge education monopoly through new baccalaureate program, scoring system

With American students earning the lowest math and reading scores in more than 20 years, an organization focused on restoring classical, traditional education is launching the Classical Baccalaureate ...
Chalkbeat

Indiana lawmakers move to expand the use of the Classic Learning Test for college admission

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Ibj.com

Indiana lawmakers move to expand use of Classic Learning Test for college admission

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Indiana. Indiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that could lead to more high school students taking the Classic Learning Test instead of the SAT or ACT ...
Chalkbeat

Test scores are down, but experts don’t know exactly why

Welcome to Chalkbeat Ideas, a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Next week we have an online event with Education Department official Lindsey ...
The New York Times

The Rise of the Self-Serve Blood Test

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...