ACT Acquires Texas-Based Policy Group
College-entrance-exam maker ACT Inc. has acquired the National Center for Educational Accountability, which is best known for its advocacy of data-driven education policy.
Officials at ACT, based in Iowa City, Iowa, and the NCEA, an Austin, Texas-based nonprofit organization, characterized the move as a natural fit of mission and culture.
“We issue a lot of policy reports to help people make data-driven decisions, and that’s what NCEA does too,” said Rose Rennekamp, a spokeswoman for ACT, which had 1,400 employees before the acquisition. “The people will be the same, the projects will be the same—they’ll just have more resources at their disposal. We’ve got a lot more...
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