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, ...

(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 ...

This is not your mom's ACT -- the familiar test that determines whether a high school senior is bound for the school of their dreams. The venerable American College Testing Program has taken its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Mexico has a problem: 21 percent of its citizens never graduate high school. The city of Albuquerque also has a problem: It has a hard time finding the right people for entry-level, high-turnover ...