The testing giant ETS announced Tuesday that it will acquire college and career-readiness assessment company ACT—a move that ...

Two years after Educational Testing Services lost its contract to administer the SAT, ETS has acquired ACT from a private equity firm. “Every student deserves a strong education, a fair shot at ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows that systems still fall short of top human expertise. Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic's disruptions while older students' test scores continue to stagnate, according to the latest testing data ...

New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...

Faculty members at the University of California are calling on the UC system to bring back standardized tests in its admissions process. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it comes as more and ...

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Students and faculty walk the courtyard at UC Irvine. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) More than 600 University of California faculty members, led by mathematicians at UC Berkeley, are calling ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...