But if schools are required, under threat of sanction, to raise their proficiency rates annually, it's fairly clear that they have a much greater incentive to switch to a more liberal interpretation of proficiency.
But instead of methodically, collaboratively, and smartly revising and implementing new, more rigorous assessments, the Commissioner and the New York State Board of Regents decided to arbitrarily, retro-actively raise the proficiency bar for the tests already taken.
While we ought to focus on raising test scores, increasing proficiency in reading and mathematics, as well as encouraging our students to engage in the sciences, we must remember that the initial weapon of the school teacher is the relationship they forge with their students.
The conclusion is therefore that the remedial class raises the English proficiency of the students.
Faced with the challenge of raising all students to academic proficiency by 2014, however, some states simply lowered their standards, while many others came up with statistical devices to exclude whole groups of children from the law's umbrella.
This study probes the effect of a remedial English course in raising the level of English proficiency of freshmen at the United States International University.
While NCLB's specific accountability strategy has seriously failed to achieve its goal of raising all students to academic proficiency, the executive branch has a legal and moral responsibility to do whatever it lawfully can, through granting waivers or otherwise, to help achieve NCLB's goals.
He issued a new opinion, in which he stated that the defense had succeeded in raising "real questions about the adequacy of the proficiency tests taken annually by certified F.B.I. fingerprint examiners".
These mechanisms, alongside increased language proficiency, could have the effect of raising their children's educational performance across all classes, since these would provide general rather than course-specific capital.
Standardization of abattoir inspection protocols (in line with international sanitary requirements), enhanced training and proficiency testing of meat inspections, and raising public awareness are recommended as essential and cost-effective interventions to improve meat inspection service in Ethiopia, with subsequent protection of consumers' health.
