For tenth graders, the share who achieved English language arts proficiency increased by fourteen points over the same period, with a four point increase in math.
No wonder, whatever the efforts of the 130-odd teaching staff, that only 29% of the students last year met the federal criterion for language and arts proficiency, and that in maths the proportion was just under 20%.
In recent years, its grade on its progress report card dropped from an A to a C to a D. P.S. 14 ranked in the bottom 4 percent of elementary schools in the city in mathematics and English language arts proficiency last year.
Ironically, the growth in demand for technical expertise (hard skills) within tech-intensive industries seems to have increased the demands for complementary liberal arts proficiency (Pichler and Beenen 2014).
Despite the emphasis some martial arts teachers give to nonviolence, much of the subject matter of martial arts is proficiency in violence: punching and kicking maneuvers that can harm or kill people.
Do you have a background in art and design, proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and also the ability to code on the side?
But many arts researchers and advocates have reacted strongly against efforts—in research, among advocacy groups, or in schools that overemphasize the link between the arts and academic proficiency.
In California's 2007 achievement gap report, Asian students ranked above Caucasian students in English-language arts and math proficiency by 4.3 and 13.9percentt percentage points, respectively, and performed at more than double the proficiency of Hispanics and African Americans.
Parents and teachers can reinforce the child's best picture of him/herself, consciously remarking on a proficiency at art, math, reading, complimenting wit or helpfulness.
Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence.
The relation of the various arts to each other is very close in South Asia, where proficiency in several arts is necessary for specialization in any one.
