Only 20percentt of low-income eighth-graders were proficient in math -- less than half the proficiency rate of more advantaged students.
The study was titled, "The Proficiency Illusion".
Student assessments -- exemplary, high-level mastery, meets the proficiency, working toward the proficiency, not meeting the proficiency -- are then submitted to the university with applications.
Kaufman believes the proficiency is part of the problem.
It takes time, however, to train linguists to the proficiency the military needs.
In any case, it can limit the proficiency of pilots landing under visual flight rules.
To toss out the proficiency standard set by Florida's graduation exam is to throw away real accountability.
If anything, it's the proficiency that Islamist terrorists sometimes display which we ought to find more remarkable.
Or take something as seemingly straightforward as the "proficiency" standard set by the No Child Left Behind legislation.
Grandsanta's old-fashioned methods fail, and his senescent feistiness proves no substitute for the proficiency of youth.
But the proficiency on display here is serious, and so is the cohesiveness of his sharp young band.
