IACE announces partnership with Classic Learning Test

FORT WORTH (March 14, 2025) - Classic Learning Test (CLT), a college entrance exam rooted in the liberal arts tradition, has become an organizational partner of the International Alliance for Christian Education. 

“CLT’s mission is to reconnect knowledge and virtue by having students engage with questions around truth, beauty, and goodness,” IACE president David S. Dockery said as he announced the new partnership.  

Dockery said the CLT measures skills such as the ability to communicate clearly, to read complex prose, to understand metaphors, to think logically, and to solve puzzles. Reading passages on the test often are sourced from classic and historical texts not bound by any particular curriculum, so they can be valuable to students in any type of school.

The company provides a suite of tests for students in grades 3 through 12, including the CLT3-8 tests, the CLT-10 and the CLT. The lower grade tests have proven immensely valuable to parents, administrators, teachers, and students in Christian K-12 schools, the growing classical education community, as well as home school families and groups.  

“I am particularly grateful to CLT for serving as the delivery mechanism for the Bible Exam,” Dockery said. CLT has offered more than 20,000 of these tests in partnership with the Association of Biblical Higher Education, another IACE partner organization.

CLT has extended its reach beyond Christian education to public schools.

The test first was adopted in Florida in 2023. There, lawmakers made key policy changes to enable testing choice for students at nearly every level of education, and the Florida Board of Governors approved the CLT as an admissions test for all of the state’s public universities. 

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