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A Delayed Census Would Hurt Education

By: Jim Larimore, chief officer

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s argument that the 2020 Census include a question about citizenship, which caused President Trump to

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Creating Educational Opportunity Requires More Than a Dashboard Score

By: Alina von Davier, senior vice president, ACTNext; Jim Larimore, chief officer; Wayne Camara, PhD, ACT's Horace Man chair, Research

Originally posted on act.org on May 29, 2019 Media coverage of the recent ”Varsity Blues” investigation and prosecution involving celebrities and wealthy parents generated a

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College-Bound Students’ Views on Paying for College

By: Gregory Kienzl, principal strategist, and Michelle Croft, principal research associate, ACT

The following blog is reprinted with permission from the Education Commission of the States. The blog originally appeared on EdNote. As a means to paying

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Celebrating Pride Starts with Supporting Students

By: Cassi Barker-Carr, principal strategist-diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism

This blog originally appeared on act.org. Prior to becoming the Principal Strategist for Diversity and Inclusion at ACT, I spent more than two decades as

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