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What we do
Advocacy
We advocate for student journalism in every school, the on-ramp to real work and a real audience.
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We pay experts to peer-review student work, and help students make it worth publishing.
Resources
For teachers who won't teach to the test: the field's best in project-based learning, journalism, video, and assessment.
The Moment
September 2026
New York paused student-facing AI for nearly 600,000 students, and the country picked sides. The ban is a tourniquet, not a solution. Fight inequity, not AI.
Office of the Mayor of New York City, September 2, 2026
June 2026
With Columbia, every Ivy League college now requires the SAT or ACT again. Each concluded the same thing: nothing else they collect means the same from one school to the next.
Columbia University, June 2026
Fall 2027 cycle
And more than nine in ten ranked four-year colleges, 2,021 of 2,182, still do not require the test. The field is reaching in both directions at once.
FairTest, 2026