Starting a company from scratch that's able to compete with the long-entrenched SAT and ACT in the college-entrance testing business sounds like an impossible dream. However, a pair of Annapolis-based entrepreneurs, philosopher Jeremy Tate and businessman David Wagner, have proven with the Classic Learning Test (CLT) that a market does exist for an SAT/ACT alternative that is based on the works of the greatest minds of Western civilization.
Just three years after the two long-time buddies ruminated on the troubled direction of education in the United States, particularly after the College Board's decision to align fully with the nationalized Common Core curricular standards, the CLT had won approval from 145 colleges and universities as a legitimate indicator of an applicant's readiness for college-level studies.
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