We consider all applications holistically and recognize that there are several ways of demonstrating proficiency.
He argued, almost from the law's passage, that no society anywhere has brought 100percentt of students to proficiency, and that the annual gains required to meet the goal of universal proficiency were unrealistically rapid, since even great school systems rarely sustain annual increases in the proportion of students demonstrating proficiency topping three to four percentage points.
Demonstrating proficiency with modern technology was especially important to counter colonial claims that Africans were intellectually inferior and incapable of governing themselves.
But only 29percentt of blacks demonstrated proficiency, and since California schools were required to raise the proportion of proficient students in every group from 24percentto35percentcenthis yearar, that was not good enough.
One permits states to issue a broad certification for science teachers, instead of requiring teachers to demonstrate proficiency in each branch that they teach, like chemistry, biology or physics.
In Minneapolis, 22percentt of black students and 27percentt of Hispanic students demonstrated proficiency in reading last year, compared with 77percentt of white students.
Even with the safety nets around the tests and sharing test information, many of my fellow Fellows are unable to demonstrate proficiency in high school-level math and English, subjects that they have been hired to teach.
Accuracy in SP portrayal of cases is critical for candidates attempting to demonstrate proficiency in clinical skills during the OSCE.
According to Dr. Daniel Jones, the chief of minimally invasive surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess, his hospital is the only one in the country to require surgical residents to demonstrate proficiency in simulated procedures in order to advance to the next year.
Of the two candidates' proposals, Mr. Bradley's emphasizes only a few areas: expanding Title 1 and ensuring a high-quality teaching force by requiring teachers to have majored in their subjects or to take a test to demonstrate proficiency.
Digital badges are also becoming popular as ways to demonstrate proficiency in a single area, but they are highly modularized and don't provide an overall picture of one's learning.
