TOPEKA, Kan. — It’s going to be a little easier for Kansas juniors to take the ACT test. It will be offered for free beginning in 2019. The Kansas State Department of Education made the announcement ...

The theory behind WorkKeys is simple: Employees want the best staff, while people want the best jobs. Gov. Jennifer Granholm recently required high school juniors to take WorkKeys as part of the ...

(WXYZ) — Students and schools say it is a “stupid test”, yet millions of your tax dollars are being spent on it. Why? One lawmaker says the reason is the law ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Janet Kantor’s role in overseeing a fair recruitment process requires creating a level playing field. “You don’t want to hire based on only a gut feeling,” says Kantor, human resources ...

In the first administration of the new ACT WorkKeys career-readiness assessment given to all public school 11th grade students last spring, 87.9 percent earned a National Career Readiness Certificate, ...

Students take tests exhaustively throughout their K-12 careers—so do they need to take a separate exam to gauge reading and writing skills for work? It’s a question still a long way away from having a ...

More than nine out of 10 students in Pickens County and Anderson District 1 who took the ACT WorkKeys career readiness test this spring earned a National Career Readiness Certificate, with both ...

Wayne County is close to becoming a certified Work Ready Community, but a few more residents need to take a free test for the county to receive the recognition. The county has accomplished 89 percent ...

Student performance improved in 2016 in Anderson County public schools and across South Carolina on ACT WorkKeys and ACT tests. In both testing programs, which are administered in the spring, ...

Alaska's high school students no longer need to take the SAT, ACT or WorkKeys test to get their diplomas. The state law requiring the college or career readiness tests expired Thursday. As of now, the ...