Sentences with phrase «minimum proficiency»

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.

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

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.

Demonstrate minimum proficiency with the English language in order to ensure effective new hire training and on - going communications about safety and quality issues.

State accountability systems that emphasize minimum proficiency and teacher evaluation systems that focus monomaniacally on improving reading and math scores have the effect of marginalizing those students whose families have taken care to read to them and do math problems with them — and who look to schools for more.

Do we require a minimum proficiency level?

States are likely to raise the minimum proficiency score only after they see their scores going up, not before.

This legislation does nothing to address the continued abysmal academic performance of the state's cyber charter schools — none of which have met the minimum proficiency standard on the state's school performance profile.

The state board agrees with a USC professor studying the issue — minimum proficiency is too narrow a measure.

This is not to say you have to be an expert in every tool, but it's good to have a minimum proficiency in a variety of the more popular eLearning authoring tools available on the market.

However, its students are performing above the minimum proficiency threshold permitted to allow targeting a school for «turn - around» under Hartford Board of Education policy.