Articles Tagged: ACT

Edtech veteran Eric Wenck has joined the assessment company as Chief Technology Officer of ACT. Wenck will oversee a team of about 200 people, and has worked at Sylvan, Catapult Learning and Fullbloom.

One week after a large California investment firm bought ACT Inc. – morphing the longtime Iowa City-based nonprofit testing company into a for-profit enterprise – a separate nonprofit organization the new ACT conglomerate promised to maintain retained the Iowa City campus and now is selling it.

ACT, Inc. — long known for its standardized tests before more recently pursuing a broader mission of research, education, and college and career readiness — this week announced a major collaboration with a large California investment firm, shifting the Iowa City-based ACT from a nonprofit to for-profit company.

The University of Iowa is looking to lease 65,760 square feet of warehouse, office, and support space on ACT Inc.’s former Iowa City campus for use by UI Health Care’s pharmacy services group.

Iowa City-based education company also looking to sell buildings

Also, new website aims to connect veterans with jobs in Iowa

Like the number and percent of American high school graduates taking the ACT – as more colleges and universities make standardized test scores optional in their admission process – the national average ACT composite score is dropping, reaching its lowest point in more than 30 years.

Following a vast and swift trend sweeping four-year colleges and universities nationally, the Iowa Board of Regents is moving to permanently eliminate the mandate that applicants to their public universities submit either SAT or ACT scores.

Mark Butland sees collaboration among Iowa’s existing educational technology companies and startups as crucial for the growth of the industry in the state.

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Iowa City-based ACT acquired Pacific Metrics Corp., a full-service assessment and technology provider headquartered in Monterey, Calif. Pacific Metrics is …

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LISBON – Rep. Nate Willems, D-Lisbon, is seeking re-election to in Iowa House 29, in eastern Linn and Johnson counties. …