In mid-March, members of the South Carolina Senate announced the “death” of the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test. More accurately, a handful of Republican senators reworked language into a broader ...

THE ISSUE: PACT tests; OUR OPINION: Standardized test should not be end-all in S.C. schools S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex has focused on bipartisanship in making recommendations on reforms ...

PACT is an advertising-industry term that stands for "positioning advertising copy testing." PACT is a list of nine principles for testing the effectiveness of ads. Twenty-one of the nation's biggest ...