National Public Radio's Shankar Vedantam took up the question this morning, interviewing John List about the group's «loss aversion» study of 150 K - 8 teachers in the Chicago Heights school district, a hard - scrabble community twenty miles south of Chicago proper where almost all the students are poor and only 64 percent meet minimum proficiency standards. (educationnext.org)
Demonstration of minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on - going communications about safety and quality issues (ziprecruiter.com)
America was flat during that period, remaining a little worse than the international average in the share of students who performed below minimum proficiency in all three subjects. (utahpubliceducation.org)