Jeremy Wayne Tate founded Classic Learning Initiatives in 2015 to provide high school students with alternative standardized tests that are rooted in tradition while taking advantage of modern technologies. Featuring passages from great works across a variety of disciplines, the Classical Learning Test (CLT) suite of assessments provides an accurate and rigorous measure of reasoning, aptitude, and academic formation for students from diverse educational backgrounds. Mr. Tate explores the underpinnings of the CLT with ACTA’s president, Michael Poliakoff.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on higher education. As students were sent home to shelter in place to prevent contracting or spreading COVID-19, classes went online and university resources, such as career counseling, followed suit. Those paying attention to higher education policy theorized that the uncertainty could make competitive colleges easier to […]
In recent years, a number of educators have challenged the usefulness of SAT and ACT tests as indicators of college readiness, and some institutions have stopped requiring college entrance examinations altogether. The purpose of this trustee guide is to acquaint trustees with the history and use of college entrance tests and the arguments for and […]
WASHINGTON, DC—A national organization devoted to academic excellence today called on the University of California and other colleges and universities not to eliminate the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) from college admission requirements. In response to University of California President Richard Atkinson’s recent call for the University of California system to abandon the use of the […]
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