>Newark Schools to adopt national college entrance exam
Not satisfied with New Jersey’s state tests, the new superintendent of Newark schools will turn to a national college entrance test to help her gauge whether high school students are meeting college and career needs.
Superintendent Cami Anderson said she would start testing students this year on the ACT, a college entrance exam comparable to the SAT, which is popular in the South and Midwest. The testing would start in 8th grade with some of ACT’s companion exams for the younger grades.
The move is one of Anderson’s most sweeping yet in trying to improve the high schools in New Jersey’s largest and arguably most troubled district, where only about half of incoming 9th grade students graduate four years later. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)