Sentences with phrase «full proficiency by»

Instead, a school is evaluated according to whether or not its students are making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) toward full proficiency by 2014.

The low performance of U.S. students has been attributed to low expectations set by states under the 2002 federal law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which expects all students to reach full proficiency by 2014.

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Kamras: A quality teacher, in my view, is someone who: 1) knows his / her subject matter with great proficiency; 2) has the demonstrated capacity — as measured by quantifiable student achievement — to share that knowledge with children; 3) holds all children, regardless of background, to the highest of standards of excellence; 4) leads by taking full responsibility for his / her students» achievement; and 5) inspires students to pursue dreams they never imagined.

The linguist turned gamer (who bears a passing resemblance to Sci Fi author Isaac Asimov) believes that the full integration of gaming technology into our educational program will end the need for tests — replaced by levels of proficiency as measured while playing the physics or history «game.»

After all, NCLB, like many other federal laws, had a five - year expiration date, and it was generally assumed that a new piece of legislation would be on the books by 2007, long before the full - proficiency deadline was reached.

iNACOL has five criteria that it recommends policymakers judge full - time virtual charter schools by: individual student growth, proficiency, graduation rates, college and career readiness, and closing the achievement gap.

San Francisco Unified's English - language - learner services are governed by the Lau Action Plan, which outlines steps the district must take to ensure students with limited English proficiency receive sufficient language instruction in English and full access to the mainstream curriculum.

Charter schools are transforming the lives of African American students by helping them unlock their full academic potential, reach grade - level proficiency, and graduate high school at high rates while prepared for college.

The backslide in proficiency scores can be explained by North Carolina's full implementation of the more rigorous and demanding Common Core standards in 2012 - 13, which precipitated an across - the - board drop in test scores for all groups of students.

The eventual goal was to have all students in all schools in every State at full «proficiency» within 12 years (by the end of the 2013 - 2014 school year).

In most cases, states take their definition of full proficiency (e.g. a 5.0 on their ELP assessment), subtract each student's initial ELP score (e.g. a 1.0 or 2.0, etc), and then divide the gap between the two by a fixed number of years.

By concentrating on three palettes within oil painting — the grisaille, the controlled palette and the full color palette — students will be guided to proficiency in conveying gestural vitality, proportional order, tonal comprehension, planar cohesion, structural anatomy and color harmony in their depictions of the human figure and portrait from direct observation.

The tower showed off its multitasking proficiency by performing a full - system scan while running Grand Theft Auto V and streaming an episode of Daredevil with 16 individual tabs open in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

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We therefore require the individual to have: A proven track record in selling to the public in a business to business environment either in person or by telephone Experience of working to financial targets and KPI's Proficiency to a very high standard in English and Maths A Full clean UK manual driving licence (minimum 12 months) We want a person who is hungry and can motivate themselves to deliver their best on a daily basis no matter what the days throws at them.