In line with this definition, good readers in the present study refer to readers with high proficiency who reached the high- or advanced-level benchmarks.
They were trained by the PI and not allowed to start interviewing until a level of proficiency was reached.
In 2004, only 34 percent reached proficiency, but in 2005, 83 percent did.
The new results showed 10percentt of black fourth graders, and 7percentt of black eighth graders, have reached proficiency.
Over all, 65 percent of Albany students in grades 3 through 6 reached proficiency on last year's English test.
Miniature language learning can serve to model real language learning as high proficiency can be reached after very little exposure.
Experience under the No Child Left Behind law (enacted in 2002) shows that many students have not reached proficiency even in states with weak standards.
EyeVision is still a work in progress, and CBS kept using it with increasing proficiency, the peak reached on the kickoff return for a touchdown by the Ravens' Jermaine Lewis.
By last year, P.S. 149's enrollment had dipped to 395 from 454 five years earlier, and 16 percent of its students reached proficiency on statewide English exams, down from 25 percent the year before.
These states, along with some education advocates, contend that schools whose students are struggling should receive credit for improving their achievement, even if they have not reached proficiency, because it is unrealistic to expect them to do so in a single year.
The CEFR does not provide normative assumptions about what level of language proficiency should be reached by non-native speakers.
