Sentence examples for below proficiency from inspiring English sources

Of course, this means that half of School 13's fourth graders are still below proficiency.

Acknowledging that the tests had become too easy to pass, the state adjusted scoring last year, causing hundreds of thousands of additional children to fall below proficiency.

Mr. Davis said that 52 percent of last year's ninth graders scored below proficiency on their math and English eighth-grade exams.

And I've advocated growth, as the chairman and every member of this committee knows, because with proficiency, the teacher ignores the kids at the top who are not going to fall below proficiency, and they ignore the kid at the bottom, who no matter what they do will never get to proficiency".

Approximately 70% of eighth graders are below proficiency in both reading and math.

Six out of 10 public school students nationwide who are not poor also score below proficiency in math and reading on the Nation's Report Card.

Neither did high school students who performed below basic proficiency standards before high school.

By forcing teachers to focus on students who fell just below the proficiency cutoff, the law may have encouraged teachers to group struggling students together to prepare them for standardized tests.

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.

The 2015 PISA results show that Immigrant students across OECD countries are more than twice as likely as non-immigrant peers to perform below baseline proficiency in science (OECD, 2016).

He lamented that "the majority of our eighth-grade level students still fall below the proficiency level," calling the scores "simply unacceptable".