When we say that we want American schoolchildren to be proficient in reading, which standard are we referring to?
Walker came to Princeton proficient in French, which her mother taught her after a Peace Corps posting to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo).
For example, in Charlotte, the most consistently high-performing district in the study, only 24percentt of fourth graders were proficient in reading, which is defined as solid academic performance.
The best prediction if someone made the jump is if they became proficient in Java, which became the underlying language of the web.
In petite diploid ccr4Δ cells that were respiratory deficient, only 15% (3/20) of G1 cells exposed to DOX remained permanently arrested in G1 as opposed to those in isogenic respiratory proficient ccr4Δ cells in which 75% (15/20) remained permanently arrested in G1 (Fig. 1C).
Only 12 percent of high school seniors are "at or above proficient" in American history, which, of course, doesn't mean they're stupid.
At the proficient level, the number of states in which girls outperformed boys was roughly equal to the number of states in which boys outperformed girls.
Just as important, it has also included more intensive rehabilitation, built around a team concept in which amputees already proficient with their prostheses work with beginners.
This was followed by another direct to video film Command Performance (2009), a hostage action drama in which Lundgren, a proficient musician in real life, plays a rock drummer forced to face terrorists at a concert in Moscow.
This was corrected in the follow-up survey of 20 EB in which only interviewers proficient in the local dialects were employed.
