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).
Exclusion criteria included a life expectancy of less than 4 months, too ill to participate, participation in a concurrent HRQoL study, less than 18 years of age, and a lack of basic proficiency in Dutch.
To graduate from a Chinese college, students must demonstrate basic proficiency in English, the language of business.
Many of our graduates end up in such research laboratories and equipping them with basic proficiency in dealing with database transformation or extraction of data subsets is an essential skill.
In Newark, which spends the most, 61% of the 11th-graders failed to achieve even basic proficiency in maths in 2005.Ironically, it is this intervention that has attracted free-market pro-voucher reformers.
Close to half the city's eighth-graders 13-144 year-olds) are below basic proficiency in reading.Clearly, having more students who need to learn English than any other state carries a cost.
To graduate, Chinese college students must have basic proficiency in English, the language of business.
Because, beyond Nepal, Nigeria, and Syria, there's more than 120 million children and adolescents who aren't in school, while 250 million that are in school are not meeting basic proficiency in literacy and math.
Women are excluded from the study if they lack basic proficiency in Dutch, if they have serious cognitive or psychiatric problems, or serious physical comorbidity that would preclude them from participating in a physical exercise program.
