If you want to pay less than that, you may have to go to a neighborhood where the zoned school has reading proficiency rates below 60percentt.
They felt that first-generation Arab immigrants dislike reading any written materials, even those translated into Arabic, as they are likely to have limited reading proficiency in their own language.
35% of students had grade level reading proficiency and 13% of students had proficiency in mathematics.
Although positive relationships between intrinsic reading motivation and reading attainment have been found among Chinese students, few studies, if any, have examined this relationship among students with diverse levels of reading skills (e.g., readers who have a high level of reading proficiency and readers who have a low level of proficiency).
American adults have low (and declining) reading proficiency.
There are public charter schools down the street from Newark Public Schools that have literally doubled the reading proficiency of our schools.
As a result, reading proficiency has increased on average by nearly four percentage points each recent year, although black students have improved more slowly.
At the same time, students' math and reading proficiency rates have risen in both D.C. charter and traditional public schools.
On average, according to 2010 test results, only about 30percentt of Ward 8 elementary school students are proficient in reading and math, while elementary schools in Ward 3 have an average math and reading proficiency of over 80percentt.
In 2012, the National Education Policy Center studied one of the largest virtual-school companies, K12, and found that its students lagged in math and reading proficiency and had lower graduation rates than those in traditional schools.
So far, the administration has not described its plans for the education law's 2014 deadline for schools to bring 100percentt of American students to math and reading proficiency, which experts have likened to a certain date by which the police are to end all crime.
