Editing Educational Testing Service (section)

==History==
ETS is a U.S.-registered [[501(c)#501(c)(3)|501(c)(3)]] [[non-profit organization]] created in 1947 by three other nonprofit educational institutions: the [[American Council on Education]] (ACE), [[The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]], and [[College Board|The College Entrance Examination Board]].<ref name="fundinguniverse1"/> ETS was formed in 1947 to take over the testing activities of its founders (whose organizations were not well suited to running operational assessment programs), and to pursue research intended to advance educational measurement and education.<ref name="Fuess">{{cite news| last =Fuess| first =C.M.| title =The College Board: Its first fifty years.| publisher =New York: The Columbia University Press| year =1950}}</ref><ref name="ETS Origins">{{cite news| last =Educational Testing Service| title =The Origins of Educational Testing Service.| publisher =Princeton, NJ: ETS| year =1992}}</ref>  Among other things, ACE gave to the new organization the Cooperative Test Service and the National Teachers Examination; Carnegie gave the GRE; and the College Board turned over to ETS the operation (but not ownership) of the [[SAT]] for graduating high school students.

In 2024 the company established massive layoffs. In June, the company "offered voluntary buyouts to every U.S. employee with more than two years of service." It was the fifth round of layoffs in five years. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=Liam |title=More Downsizing at Beleaguered ETS |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/graduate/2024/06/18/massive-downsizing-ets-legacy-assessment-company |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}}</ref>