Sentence examples for schools proficiency from inspiring English sources

At the main campus of the Harlem Promise Academy, one of the city's top-ranked charter schools, proficiency in third-grade math dropped from 100 percent to 56 percent.

At the Harlem Promise Academy, one of New York City's more prestigious charter schools, proficiency on the third grade math tests dropped off the precipice from 100% passing to only 56%.

She has passed some high school proficiency exams, but her work habits are spotty.

And last year it had an 88percentt passing rate on the state high school proficiency test, three points above average.

Although passing it gives you a Certificate of High school proficiency, a legal equivalent of a high school diploma in California, it is not the same as receiving a high school diploma.

Re "Schools Confronting Proficiency Demands," by Joseph Berger (On Education column, regional sections, March 23): As a pediatric neuropsychologist, I believe that the objective of the No Child Left Behind Act is laudable in its aspiration to raise the educational achievement of all students, notably those who are functioning below expected levels.

Success Academy Charter Schools' students are in the top one percent of all New York schools in proficiency in math.

Would he want our high school students, already 29th in the world in high school science proficiency, to suffer further economic disadvantage by learning non-science propaganda, and thus not even understanding the difference between science and theology?

To help fill this void, we examine the causal impact of capital expenditures on school district proficiency rates in Michigan.

Under the main federal education law, schools must achieve proficiency in math and reading by 2014, or risk sanctions.

The Gap App Challenge was designed to help public schools close that proficiency gap through technological innovation.