Personally, I can appreciate his comments on the nuances of assessing talent, particularly for determining mastery versus basic proficiency.
If we look across America, more students studying STEM is a great sign - we are significantly behind other countries in basic proficiency.
In high school exit exams that year, 96% of the city's public school students were below basic proficiency in English.
Unfortunately, most practices revolve around ensuring a customer's successful onboarding and instilling a basic proficiency of use.
Students spend the first half of the semester gaining basic proficiency in reading Akkadian.
In an announcement at BronxWorks, a nonprofit social services agency, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pointed to a few examples of success: High school students who met basic proficiency standards before high school tended to increase their attendance, receive more class credits and perform better on standardized tests; more families went to the dentist for regular checkups.
We found that the majority of respondents scored themselves as either needing improvement or having basic proficiency across the Core Competencies at the beginning of the MPH program.
Candidates must have achieved a basic proficiency (at least one year of intensive study at Yale or a comparable program by the time of departure) in the target language, but should not have achieved such a level of proficiency that they won't significantly improve by attending a program.
Sure enough, teenage boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail to achieve basic proficiency in any of maths, reading and science (see chart 1).
To graduate, Chinese college students must have basic proficiency in English, the language of business.
Now, I accept that students need a basic proficiency in a broad range of topics.
