Now, I accept that students need a basic proficiency in a broad range of topics.
For the first time, participants had to demonstrate proficiency in vocabulary in addition to spelling.
This obliviousness is partly the fault of an educational system that emphasizes memorization over actual proficiency in English.
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Most students will have to show greater proficiency in English and more robust proof that they can support themselves.
Proficiency in risk management comes from trusting yourself as a leader.
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For the school-leaving exam, proficiency in at least two languages is required.
Over the next ten years, nearly half of all new jobs will require education beyond high school, many requiring proficiency in math and science.
Basically, as a part of No Child Left Behind, we're expected to meet proficiency in reading and math by the year 2013 or 14.
The French are not known for their proficiency in foreign languages.
Access to vocational schools that help them develop proficiency in a trade would give them another option and actually make them more competitive in the workplace.
So, it's bad timing that today's students are not demonstrating the necessary levels of interest or proficiency in math and science to fill these technological jobs.
Many of the jobs that are going to exist in the future, that exist now -- like the ones here at Intel -- require proficiency in math and science.
Users can only advance to the next level in a subject once they reach 90% proficiency in the current one, and the software allows Pyfrom to track their progress.
While we should maintain the law's strong focus on getting kids to proficiency in reading and math, grade-level math and reading skills are just the beginning of what children will need to succeed in 21st-century workplaces.
Because California has so many schoolchildren 5.8m of them, of whom 1.5m have only limited proficiency in English it needs, the teachers say, a special test of its own, and not one pulled willy-nilly off the national shelf.
For starters, the two-year degree is housed at the Fletcher School, which specializes in international affairs, not business. (Tufts doesn't have a business school.) All students have previous international experience and they are required to demonstrate proficiency in a second language.
"The incidence and complexity of computer crime continues to increase rapidly as greater numbers of people develop proficiency in manipulating electronic data and navigating computer networks, and as worldwide access to the Internet continues to expand, " according to the budget document.
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The legacy of the Soviet years has left a mark which the country carries with it into its EU era: Many Russian-speakers complain of discrimination, saying strict language laws make it hard to get jobs or citizenship without proficiency in Estonian.
The strategy recognizes the need for agencies to gain proficiency in managing or consuming shared IT services and therefore provides an initial focus on commodity IT consolidation opportunities, as called for in the August 2011 OMB memo to Chief Information Officers.
Less than one-third of U.S. eighth graders show proficiency in mathematics and science, yet STEM jobs are expected to number eight million within the next five years and more than two million of these will be newly created positions that need to be filled.
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There were 4.7 million students classified as "English language learners" those who have not yet achieved proficiency in English in the 2009-10 school year, or about 10 percent of children enrolled, according to the most recent figures available from the U.S. Department of Education.
Bush has called for a testing regimen to help get lagging or failed schools on track, saying student proficiency in reading and math must be measured so parents will know whether their children are advancing equitably -- and so school administrators will know if their teachers are performing up to locally established standards.
The plan aims to create brigades better equipped to operate in specific regions by establishing language and cultural proficiency programs in their assigned territory.
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Through that work, she's identified other ways her bus can help struggling neighbors build up technological proficiency necessary in the marketplace.
And we believe that there is still a -- obviously a proficiency here in this community to continue to do manufacturing.
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Proficiency scores in reading, writing, science and mathematics for American teenagers in their last year of high school all fell between 1992 and 2005.
The school adopted a bilingual program for all students, regardless of language proficiency, in the 1960s after receiving a wave of Cuban immigrants fleeing the 1959 communist revolution.
Graham Cluley, a senior consultant for security firm Sophos, thinks that children should sit an internet proficiency test in the same way as many do currently before riding a bike on the road.
Then came the proficiency badge in raw politics.
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Fifty-five percent of New York students met the English Language Arts proficiency standards in 2012 by scoring at least a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4, and 65 percent scored at least a 3 on the math tests.
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