Only 27 percent of fourth graders are proficient in reading; 36 percent are proficient in math.
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In the Carle Place district, 47 percent were proficient in English language arts and 63 percent were proficient in math.
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At Increase Miller Elementary, 78 percent of fourth-graders were proficient in math and 69 percent were proficient in English language arts.
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Two years later, 29 percent were proficient in English, and 26 percent proficient in math, pulling the school close to the city average.
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But Latino registered voters who are more proficient in Spanish or proficient in both Spanish and English were overwhelmingly for Clinton: 80 percent to 11 percent.
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Four percent of students scored proficient in English and 2698 percent scored proficient in math at the school the year before it was taken over by Uncommon Schools.
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Charter schools in New York City did even better than traditional public schools, with 43 percent of students proficient in English and 48.7 scoring as proficient in math.
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Only 35 percent of fourth graders were proficient in reading in 19903, down from 37 percent in 2017; 34 percent of eighth graders were proficient in reading, down from 36 percent.
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On the 21985-18 state assessments, 68 percent of the district's fourth-graders were proficient in math and 68 percent were proficient in English Language Arts; statewide equivalents were 48 and 47 percent.
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In 17963, 21796 percent of students in third through eighth grade tested proficient in English language arts, compared with 25 percent statewide; 2000 percent tested proficient in mathematics, compared with 45 percent statewide.
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In 17963, 21796 percent of students in third through eighth grade tested proficient in English language arts, compared with 25 percent statewide; 2000 percent tested proficient in mathematics, compared with 45 percent statewide.
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They are all very proficient in the art of negotiation.
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On the most recent round of state tests, 224 percent of third through fifth graders were proficient in reading, while 224 percent were proficient in math, compared with 224 percent and 20153 percent citywide.
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On the 2018-19 state assessments, 76 percent of the district's fourth-graders were proficient in math and 55 percent were proficient in English language arts; statewide equivalents were 50 percent and 17883 percent.
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On the 2684-21893 state assessments, 255 percent of Katonah Elementary's fourth-graders were proficient in math and 68 percent were proficient in English language arts; statewide equivalents were 48 percent and 47 percent.
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On the 720-1920 state assessments, 72 percent of the district's fourth-graders were proficient in math and 57 percent were proficient in English language arts; statewide equivalents were 48 percent and 47 percent.
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Among fourth graders, about a third are proficient in reading, and more than 40% are proficient in math, per AP. Fourth-grade reading scores dropped in 17 states, with New Jersey seeing the biggest drop.
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At Bonsall Elementary School, 4 percent of students scored proficient in English and 3 percent scored proficient in math the year before Uncommon Schools, a charter school operator, took over, renaming the school Camden Prep.
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On the 863-286 state assessments, 290 percent of the district's fourth-graders tested as proficient in math and 21980 percent as proficient in English language arts; statewide equivalents were 48 percent and 47 percent.
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And it's not only YouTube that the president is proficient in.
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They have staffs polished and proficient in the art of communication.
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Less than a third of the kids are proficient in math.
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Among those schools is KAPPA IV, a middle school in Manhattan, where last year just 9 percent of its students scored as proficient in English on statewide tests and 2 percent scored as proficient in math.
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Scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress state that in 2014, only 18 percent of 000th grade students scored "at" or "above proficient" in American History and 23 percent scored "at" or "above proficient" in civics.
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Don't just list coding — name each coding language you are proficient in.
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Both boys studied diligently, and one, Philip, was particularly proficient in math.
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Amanda Bergen, a district spokeswoman, said that of the fourth-graders who took the 21816 state assessments, 435 percent were proficient in English and 22005 percent were proficient in math; statewide equivalents were 41 percent and 43 percent.
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You can play (and even win) whether or not you're proficient in football.
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Villanelle is an excellent international hitwoman partly because she's proficient in several languages.
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Yann is fluent in English and French, and proficient in German and Portuguese.
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This year, 93 percent of Success Academy students tested as proficient in math in 2015, compared with just 35 percent of kids in New York as a whole; 68 percent tested as proficient in reading, compared with 30 percent citywide.
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In 21950, according to the New York State Education Department, 69 percent of Kings Park students in third through eighth grade were proficient in English language arts and 66 percent were proficient in mathematics, versus 45 and 47 percent statewide.
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The specialists will be proficient in local languages to address complaints from across India.
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Just 2023 percent of employers believe their college graduates are proficient in leadership skills.
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The next year, 20 percent were proficient in English and 28 percent in math.
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Have you considered adding "proficient in throwing and catching babies" to the old résumé?
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Like Raz, he comes from a Mizrahi family, and he is proficient in Arabic.
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However, Oklahoma wasn't as proficient in the first half, making only 3 of 14.
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Now, they must be experts — or at least proficient — in programming languages like python.
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Four percent of students scored proficient in English and 3 percent scored proficient in math at the school the year before it was taken over by Uncommon Schools, rather than no students scoring proficient on either test the year after Uncommon took over.
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When controlled race and socioeconomic status, students in the voucher program were about 5 percent more likely to be proficient in English and 4 percent more likely to be proficient in math than their peers at Milwaukee Public Schools, according to Flanders research.
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José L. Carrión, the superintendent of schools, said that on the 2019 state assessments, 49 percent of the district's fourth-graders were proficient in math and 49 percent were proficient in English language arts; statewide equivalents were 50 percent and 48 percent.
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Janet M. Robinson, the superintendent, said that on the 21-19553 Smarter Balanced assessments, 21955 percent of the district's fourth-graders tested proficient in English language arts and 21982 percent tested proficient in math, compared with 21989 percent and 53 percent statewide.
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At night, Mr. Toffler wrote poetry and fiction and discovered he was proficient in neither.
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The percentage of fourth graders who are proficient in mathematics tripled from 1990 to 2015.
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Last season, Kirk Cousins was reasonably proficient in leading Washington to a 2195-231 record.
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Data from the Connecticut Department of Education's EdSight portal indicated that of the seventh graders who took the 8-2475 Smarter Balanced assessments, 220 percent were proficient in English and 280 percent were proficient in math; statewide equivalents were 95 percent and 17433 percent.
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"Very few organizations have enough rooms to actually get proficient in meeting room management," Anderson explained.
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At Dunbar, only 12 percent of pupils were proficient in reading and 5 percent in math.
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Of African-American eighth graders, 17 percent are proficient in reading and 14 percent in math.
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Citywide last year, 38 percent of students were proficient in math and 41 percent in English.
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When the New York State Education Department announced scores last week from this year's standardized tests, it led with the good news — nearly 38 percent of students statewide were proficient in English and about 39 percent were proficient in math, up from the previous year's results.
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Facebook has said it's investing in building the team, including hiring more people proficient in world languages.
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Sixty percent of students at private schools were at or above proficient in engineering and technology literacy.
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It's high time that you actually be true to what your CV says: proficient in Microsoft Excel.
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Academically, 10% of the students at her daughter's school are proficient in reading and 4% in math.
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Okay, honesty hour: do you really mean it when you say you're *highly* proficient in Microsoft Office?
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I was working on expanding access to local government for folks who are not proficient in English.
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An emerging soft skill crisisIncreasingly, graduates are incredibly proficient in technical skills like coding, according to Wingard.
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She wants students to "become proficient" in reading and writing cursive by the end of third grade.
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In New York City, for instance, only 28500 percent of African-American youngsters are proficient in math.
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Carolina is a native Brazilian and US citizen, fluent in Portuguese, Spanish as well as proficient in French.
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But SEALs are maritime creatures and thus tend to also be very proficient in entering via sea routes.
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These patients—now called "e-patients" are well connected, well informed and digitally proficient in the healthcare space.
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In math, just 7.9 percent of Renewal students were proficient in math, up from 6.3 percent last year.
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Homeless students who were designated as English Language Learners generally took longer to become proficient in the language.
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Forty percent of students this year are not proficient in English, compared with 24 percent at New Millennium.
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The rebels have become increasingly proficient in using Iranian technology, such as ballistic missiles, drones and air defense.
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Among Detroit fourth-graders, 4% scored at or above proficient in math and 5% did so in reading.
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Are each of these squirrels proficient in the crane kick technique pioneered by Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid?
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The attacker's language, spelling and grammar indicates that they are semi-proficient in English but they frequently make mistakes.
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This course is centered around making you proficient in the software so you can automate all your IT infrastructures.
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As Atreus gains confidence and continues to learn from watching his father, he naturally becomes more proficient in battle.
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In each of those years, only about 5 percent of Detroit's children were ranked proficient in math or literacy.
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Its members were of different races and sexual orientations, and they were proficient in a variety of musical styles.
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But a study from some fucking eggheads at Marist College and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts shows that the POV hypothesis can go eat a big bowl of ass, because it turns out that those who are more proficient in coming up with taboo words are also more verbally proficient in general.
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Here's the thing: no hiring manager is going to be impressed when you claim that you're proficient in Microsoft Office.
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Deadpool is also a trained mercenary, proficient in hand-to-hand fighting, as well as combat with guns and swords.
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To become proficient in critical thinking – at least in a literate society – students need to be able to handle text.
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"I was looking for ways to stay active, proficient in flying," Frederick, who goes by "Fred" to listeners, tells PEOPLE.
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And while Valk Fleet was undoubtedly very successful at signing up restaurants, it wasn't so proficient in collecting money owed.
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It is fascinating to imagine a modern athlete proficient in all these forms, especially the widely distinct sport of wrestling.
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The North Koreans in the past have been proficient in sealing the underground shafts in which they detonated test devices.
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This year, just 6 percent of students were proficient in English and 4 percent scored at grade level in math.
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Only 15.7 percent of Milwaukee Public School students tested proficient in reading in 2013-14, and 20.3 percent in math.
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"It appears that these brain systems increasingly fine-tune their communication as learners become more and more proficient in reading."
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As a result of all of the above, the demand for those proficient in these cloud services has surged stupendously.
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The girls became so proficient in Spanish that they started speaking it at home to keep secrets from their parents.
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Learning the language of machines, she said, is as basic as writing is to being proficient in a foreign language.
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It's 2020 and if you're not actually proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, what are you even doing?
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In every county in the state the majority of Latino students are not proficient in math or English language arts.
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I'm also quite proficient in Apple Polishing, a hard-won talent earned through years of trying to get good grades.
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Foot Locker is more than proficient in several of the other lines it carries as well, mainly running and casual footwear.
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The producer should also be comfortable with recording in the field or in the studio and be proficient in Pro Tools.
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Now, the Brazilian is highly proficient in handling a fight on his feet and appears to actually prefer it that way.
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We do, after all, have over 4,000 idioms that make absolutely no sense to people who aren't proficient in American English.
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And many times, they are proficient in some EQ skills, but when it comes to understanding themselves, they are woefully blind.
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Workers proficient in those subjects will be "the agents of change for all institutions," Gates tells LinkedIn Executive Editor Daniel Roth.
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An official study in 2013 estimated that 400m Chinese, or almost a third of the population, are not proficient in putonghua.
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Last year, 22 percent of students were proficient on the state reading tests and 35 percent scored as proficient in math.
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The coffee shop at Sixth and H Streets NE will be staffed by roughly 20 people who are proficient in ASL.
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Helping hands Starbucks is about to open a new branch in Washington where every single employee is proficient in sign language.
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We are more realistic: science and personal experience indicate that most people need time to become proficient in a second language.
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Proficient in five languages, he was insatiably curious and exuded a low-intensity charm that attracted a wide circle of friends.
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The U.S. Navy has resisted moving towards a specialization model, believing that officers are most effective if proficient in all areas.
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Senate candidates -- even those as proficient in fundraising as Portman -- shouldn't be more flush with cash than their party's presumptive presidential nominee.
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Overall, just over a third of the U.S.'s eighth graders are proficient in reading and math, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.
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Results from a pre-school programme in Texas found improvements for low-income students and those who were not proficient in English.
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Their children attend schools where 79% of students are proficient in reading, compared with 47% in Baltimore city schools before the move.
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Similarly, 44.5 percent of Newark's elementary charter students test proficient in math, compared to only 26.4 percent of their public school counterparts.
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Pistol shooting has been a hobby of hers for the past seven years, and she is very proficient—in fact, a marksman.
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And 51 percent of white fourth graders were at or above proficient in math, compared with 19 percent of black fourth graders.
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I'm now mostly proficient in flying the A-10 Warthog and F-15 Eagle in the ruthlessly accurate sim Digital Combat Simulator.
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You have to demonstrate that you've been training consistently, you're proficient in your techniques, and you've made some sort of significant progress.
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The Buttigieg folk say that besides English, he's proficient in Spanish, French, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Arabic and Dari, a variation of Persian.
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He was proficient in an abundance of poetic techniques, and often enjoyed highlighting the artificiality of the traditions in which he worked.
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It introduced high-stakes standardized testing to gauge students, with the goal of making every student proficient in those subjects by 2014.
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Born in in Todmorden, England, on November 2, 1944, Emerson became a proficient in the piano by age 14, according to his website.
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You will be highly proficient in Pro Tools, and you will smooth, mix and master edits to broadcast quality on a quick turnaround.
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"It has historically taken five years to get someone proficient in shipbuilding," said Maura Dunn, vice president of human resources at Electric Boat.
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But I do think you'll see [the Afghans] increasingly capable, increasingly competent, and increasingly proficient in employing their own assets as fighting continues.
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In addition to Pashto, English and his native Mandarin, Wang is also proficient in Russian and Turkish and was learning Persian in Iran.
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The Excel & Google Sheets Mastery Bundle (now only $19) can help you become proficient in both apps so you can become a spreadsheet overlord.
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A 2014 analysis showed 17 percent of Detroit charter school students were rated proficient in math, versus 13 percent of traditional public school students.
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Young Hispanics today are more proficient in English than previous generations and the younger they are, the more proficient they are likely to be.
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The Washington, D.C., store will hire roughly two dozen deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing employees, all of whom will be proficient in ASL.
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"You can't put somebody that is not proficient in that firearm in a position to where they'll have to use deadly force," he said.
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Since 22019, the percentage of 12th graders performing at or above proficient in math and reading has remained stagnant at less than 40 percent.
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Eligible students must be proficient in English, in good academic standing and enrolled as undergraduates at an accredited college or university in Puerto Rico.
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A 22015 school board candidate's website deplored the statistic that just 2500 percent of the city's eighth graders were proficient in reading and math.
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Even fashion designers will need to be technically proficient in the future, and there's no downside to our acquiring new skills as a society.
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Nearly 22015 percent of students are not proficient in English, and 260 percent come from families who are on some form of public assistance.
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On the one hand, it creates concentrations of wealth empowering those proficient in the inside game to hold on to and enhance their privileges.
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Nationally, only 2023 percent of black students and 21 percent of Hispanic students tested "above proficient" in reading by the end of 4th grade.
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In the 2017-18 school year, 13 percent of its students passed the state math test and 28 percent scored as proficient in reading.
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Luckily, I was already proficient in this language, as the doted-on daughter of a brainy father with whom I spent hours in conversation.
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Test scores for English learners subsequently rose, but so did those proficient in English, suggesting the decline of bilingual education was not the sole cause.
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That's going to be critical as the company positions itself as a company proficient in visual search and to break out of experimental advertising budgets.
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The young staff are Chinese who have studied abroad and are proficient in one of the network's five languages—English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian.
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PRISTINA/SARAJEVO (Reuters) - What do you do in Kosovo, one of Europe's poorest countries, if you're unemployed but young, computer-savvy and proficient in English?
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Russian illegal cyber warriors (hackers) are among the most proficient in the world with around 40 large criminal cyber rings operating within the country's borders.
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While Miller is proficient in his striking, his bread and butter is his advanced jiu jitsu game—made clear by his 13 career submission victories.
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Teachers themselves are often only barely proficient in these, so it is hardly surprising that pupils emerge from primary school unable to read in them.
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In this class, you'll learn how to establish SMART goals for yourself and your staff to help you become more proficient in managing your team.
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Those who want to act as international interpreters or translators should become proficient in the languages that are most frequently used in their target destinations.
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The statistics are worse for low-income neighborhoods, where 43 schools serving low-income students reported only five percent of students proficient in academic basics.
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Workers proficient in those subjects will be "the agents of change for all institutions," Gates told LinkedIn Executive Editor Daniel Roth in a 2016 interview.
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But he did more than just rack up points, equally proficient in defense while playing with an intensity night after night that few could match.
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found in 2010 that only 24% of students in grade 12 were "proficient" in their understanding of civics.
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New immigrants who find few ethnic compatriots get value from acquiring skills that allow more social and economic exchanges, such as becoming proficient in English.
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There's no doubt in my mind, he would've been proficient in almost every aspect of the sport just because that's the way his mind works.
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It's also important to stress that studies have found 79% of those who speak a language other than English at home are also proficient in English.
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Betsy DeVos fully understands this challenge and will demand that the education establishment do a better job of ensuring that our children are proficient in STEM.
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Schools in the program had 12.8 percent of third through eighth graders score as proficient in the English exam, an increase from 63 percent last year.
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Citywide, 38 percent of students were proficient in English — the first time the city has matched the statewide levels — an increase from 30.4 percent last year.
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The late 1990s and early 231s were a time of abundance for skilled programmers; anyone proficient in LightWave 222D or Macromedia Director could make six figures.
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Less-educated middle-age people: The people in this group are often not proficient in English, and about one in three people are not US citizens.
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In 2015, Mr. Joko publicly quashed a draft regulation requiring all expatriate workers to be proficient in the Indonesian language, saying it was bad for business.
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O'Brien, who spent a year as an undergrad at South Africa's University of the Free State and says he is proficient in Afrikaans, shares this view.
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Civil society groups have repeatedly called for the company to invest more in hiring moderators proficient in local languages and to be more transparent in its process.
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Governments have become fairly proficient in providing this insurance—transaction costs for the US Social Security system are a fraction of those associated with comparable private insurance.
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The plaintiffs say the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey found that just over 30,20183 Puerto Rican adults in the 32 counties are not proficient in English.
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You might claim to be "proficient" in Microsoft Excel on your résumé, but what happens when your manager asks you to run a VLOOKUP on the spot?
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This program also promotes our heritage and Native American language learners to continue developing their native language at the same time they are becoming proficient in English.
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That same year, a panel appointed by Mr. Christie and Mr. Baraka reported that while on the annual statewide tests just 22 percent of Newark students were proficient in English, and 17 percent passed in math, they were well ahead of students in comparable urban districts, and showed improvement (on the latest tests, 31 percent of students passed the English portion of the test, while 23 percent were proficient in math).
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Though he was not a good student, he excelled with a tutor his uncle hired for him at home, growing proficient in English over five months, relatives said.
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Mr. Graham, the Philadelphia-based author of more than 20 plays as well as numerous television and film scripts, is proficient in creating conversational dialogue and believable characters.
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Though the "Signing Store" has the classic Starbucks look and feel, every employee, otherwise known as a partner, at the cafe is proficient in American Sign Language (ASL).
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Hewitt's central point is that by becoming proficient in a single task, it's very easy for a machine to seem generally intelligent, when that's not really the case.
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Using English as a baseline, you would need approximately 700 hours to become proficient in a foreign language as measured by Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
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The Bolsheviks, who did not fear the past and who employed God-fearing peasant nannies to bring up their children, were particularly proficient in creating their own gravediggers.
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Devslopes Coding Academy: Lifetime Membership — $11.60 with code 'WEEKEND60' See Details Did you know that those who are proficient in Excel are more likely to get a salary bump?
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In fact, a national 2018 survey found that roughly 40 percent of employers rate recent college graduates as proficient in professionalism and work ethic and oral and written communications.
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During the 2018-2019 school year, roughly 29 percent of students reached academic proficiency in reading, 24 percent were proficient in math and 26 percent achieved proficiency in science.
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Shortly after joining, while in the process of deep diving into strategy, I decided on one important thing — to become as proficient in the platform as I possibly could.
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In St. Paul the figures are similar: 25 percent of black students and 20013 percent of Hispanic students are proficient in reading, compared with 72 percent of white students.
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More than 85% of African-American male fourth-graders in the United States are not proficient in reading, according to the 2013 U.S. Department of Education Nation's Report Card.
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He was perhaps in his thirties, if that, wore glasses he kept misplacing, and, as it turned out, was not only proficient in several languages but played the piano.
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As long as you're proficient in movements like this, Adams-Arent says, you could play a game like this with smaller, lighter balls on a tennis or volleyball court.
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Others, called "technicians," use only their physical fighting skill — most are proficient in a number of combat arts, including Greco-Roman wrestling, various traditional African wrestling styles, and kung fu.
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Most people living in the U.S. do both: Studies have found that about 79% of those who speak a "so-called" foreign language at home are also proficient in English.
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Kabuki is a blend of singing, dancing and acting, and performers must be proficient in all three; its roots lie in a bawdy, rebellious musical theatre once performed by women.
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At P.S. 124, where 164 percent of the students are Asian, nearly half come from families receiving some form of public assistance, and 37 percent are not proficient in English.
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Proficient in English, Thai, Burmese, Mandarin and Wa, Adul politely communicated to the British divers his squad's greatest needs: food and clarity on just how long they had stayed alive.
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Kids in Chicago are graduating from high school with little more than a fifth grade education, and 80 percent of eighth graders in the city are not proficient in math.
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Donald Trump reading web articles printed off from the Huffington Post (Twitter)At 69 years old, Trump comes from an era when business executives weren't expected to be proficient in typing.
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Robots do not yet have the ability to perform complex tasks like negotiation or persuading, and they are not as proficient in generating new ideas as they are at solving problems.
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The results absolutely trounced what Mortal Kombat offered, and because they were stage, not character determined, meant that a player proficient in just one or two fighters could see them all.
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She comes from the state of New York, in which only 19 percent of fourth-grade black children are judged proficient in reading, as compared to 47 percent of white children.
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While his career has had the usual high and low points since he became a professional 11 years ago, Cavendish became proficient in the often dangerous, always terrifying, art of sprinting.
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Their effort gained new urgency after national test scores last year showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and bad ones.
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The IRP reported that the four pilots involved in the accident had not flown enough hours in the month preceding the crash to be considered proficient in the operation of their aircraft.
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This year, Sony began to offer starting salaries of up to 7.3 million yen for postgraduates proficient in areas such as AI, compared with its standard starting salary of 6 million yen.
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Aging is generally associated with improvements in our quality of life: We become more proficient in our work, learn how to manage our finances better and our bonds with loved ones deepen.
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Consider Washington, D.C. More than half of charter school students are proficient in math and reading in that city, while just under half of the students in traditional public schools are proficient.
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Fast-forward to the dismal situation today, Sowell found that just 9 percent of the students at Frederick Douglass High School scored as proficient in reading and only 3 percent in math.
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In addition to Wa, according to the Times , Adul is "proficient" in Thai, Burmese, Mandarin, and English—which enabled him to interpret for the two British divers who discovered the trapped team.
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It turned out Perez and an acquaintance of Kovalev's had trained at the same Shaolin temple, where Perez, who is 5-foot-1 and approximately a flyweight, became proficient in kung fu.
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Countries were given until 2011 to ensure that pilots on international routes be able to communicate within the air traffic control system and that pilots and controllers be proficient in spoken English.
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Photo: Getty Career counselors are probably telling kids these days to learn how to code or become proficient in Mandarin but the field of public relations is in dire need of some talent.
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Viv Richards was probably the most dominating batsman and Greg Chappell was as proficient in a way, but Tendulkar was clearly seen as the greatest batsman of his era, ahead of Brian Lara.
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Until I requested to speak in English, which I am proficient in, that he told me what it stood for and told me he had nothing more to ask and hung up abruptly.
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And due to their combat experience in Iraq and Syria, they will likely be "proficient in constructing and deploying viable improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and in military-standard weapon-handling," according to Hawkins.
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It also has one of the worst school districts, in which, a couple of years ago, one survey showed that in 13 mostly black high schools, not one kid was proficient in math.
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"If not for the fact that there were people inside of the church that were both armed, and highly proficient in using their weapon, the end result would have been catastrophic," he wrote.
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And the International House of Pancakes (it must be spelled out given all the recent attempts to remix it) is so proficient in flapjacks, it's eager to frisbee them into any open mouth.
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"They're going to be less proficient in the language, which makes it harder for them to do their jobs, which means they'll struggle to protect and serve the nation," the diplomat told me.
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"I'm very empathetic with the nurses on unduly burdening them so they can't be proficient in their work and so I just hope this gets resolved in a way that we have serious legislation."
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But if nothing else, the Shockers (31-4) proved in their 64-58 victory against No. 7 seed Dayton (303-8) that they are proficient in low-scoring, grind-it-out games as well.
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Federal election observers who are to report on and help to preserve voting rights do not include those proficient in voting systems technical security, nor those who are expert in election cybersecurity risk management.
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Facebook employs hundreds of people around the world, proficient in a range of languages, to review these "flags" and decide whether content should be taken down or if a user's account should be disabled.
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The Pirates have even plucked three catchers from the Yankees in recent years — signing Martin as a free agent, and trading for Francisco Cervelli and Chris Stewart, who are also proficient in pitch framing.
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You could kill them with a shotgun blast through the wall, or letting off an explosive, but you need to be proficient in how the scanner works to really make the most of it.
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" While no singer is expected to be proficient in every style, he added, a successful singing career will span a wide range of repertoire: "The good singers don't use four or five different voices.
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But in his place are a slew of website owners proficient in the art of search-engine marketing, funneling you with the help of Google toward the mattress that lines their pockets the most.
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For instance, when AT&T needs its 280,000 workers to be proficient in cloud computing and mobile skills, they are no longer just competing with Sprint and Verizon for talent, but also Google and Amazon.
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The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) recent student survey noted that 85 percent of the Class of 2016 graduates deem themselves very or extremely proficient in terms of professionalism/ work ethic and teamwork.
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Russia has become extremely proficient in electromagnetic spectrum operations, as evidenced in recent activity in Ukraine, leading some to warn that the U.S. capabilities are inferior, which causes concern in the event of a conflict.
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I like to think that I am more than proficient in my knowledge of hot beverages, but today I learned about a new one called HYSON tea, spelled as the plural in Ryan McCarty's puzzle.
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On standardized tests, 239 percent of students in third through eighth grades demonstrated proficiency in English language arts, compared with 21919 percent statewide; 24 percent tested as proficient in math, compared with 47 percent statewide.
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In New Mexico, which has one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation, three-quarters of fourth and eighth graders are not proficient in reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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"Ultimately this has to be about every student succeeding, so to say that one-third are going to be proficient in 10 years, the department is right to call that into question," Mr. Alleyne said.
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Unpacking and organizing all your belongings in a new apartment is pretty stressful, but for those who aren't yet proficient in the kitchen, filling up the pantry and cabinets can be the hardest task of all.
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An above-average 55.8 percent of Newark's elementary charter school students test as proficient in English Language Arts, while only 32.5 percent of Newark's public school district students in grades three through eight score the same.
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According to this report from Business Roundtable, 85033 percent of U.S. high school students are either uninterested or non-proficient in STEM subjects—numbers that obviously need to change to expand the nation's pipeline of talent.
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Except, of course, the Trump administration has had the gall to care about making sure American workers – including those who've taken out large government-backed loans to become proficient in computer science – don't get the shaft.
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Facebook has previously said it removes 99 percent of terrorist content on its platform automatically, but experts say that artificial intelligence is still a decade away from being proficient in dealing with this type of content.
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Only 23 percent of American eighth graders were proficient in civics on the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test that included questions on the Constitution and the roles of the various branches of government.
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That news was not entirely unexpected — even six years ago South Korean intelligence was aware the hermit regime was becoming more proficient in downsizing its nuclear weapons — but it does mean a significant step for Pyongyang.
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The canyon and the surrounding region contain the remnants of great houses, kivas, ancient roads and sacred places built a millennium ago by an indigenous people who became proficient in architecture, agriculture, astronomy and the arts.
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But the company did not directly respond to a question asking how many content reviewers are focused on India in particular or proficient in Indian languages, saying its team supports the majority of official languages in India.
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Facebook and YouTube say they are taking a much more proactive approach to removing problematic content, hiring more staff to address this worldwide, particularly those proficient in local languages, and developing algorithms to automatically flag violent posts.
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To what extent was it necessary to be proficient in chess yourself — was it a question of putting the rules in and working from there, or did the work need to be informed by your own experience?
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I remember there was a faculty search process that the founder, Nicholas, was running, and we called it the Professor of Other; the candidate had to be proficient in at least two orthogonal fields and be antidisciplinary.
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Less than one-quarter of black and Hispanic eighth graders scored at least "proficient" in reading, compared with 45 percent of whites and 55 percent of Asian-Americans, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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Recent research conducted by professors at the University of Oregon and Stanford University suggests English learners enrolled in bilingual and dual immersion programmes take longer than their peers in English-only ones to become fully proficient in English.
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Ms. Ojeda and her husband, Michael, have been trying since then to persuade state lawmakers to approve a bill that would require police officers across New York State to be recertified as proficient in CPR every two years.
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In 2017 in New York State testing of third through eighth graders, 26 percent of Westbury students were proficient in English language arts, compared with 40 percent statewide; in math, 17753 percent were proficient versus 40 percent statewide.
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But being an unapologetically pro-agriculture secretary who is both proficient in the administration of USDA duties and no shrinking violet when it comes to matters affecting agriculture outside of USDA's purview are what made him a standout.
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By giving a preference to immigrants proficient in English and with degrees or training and job offers, the officials said the plan would allow 57% of green cards, which grant permanent legal residency, to be based on employment.
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In Pre K-53 education, for example, only 19 percent of black students are proficient in 4th grade math, compared to 62 percent of Asian students, according to the U.S. Department of Education's 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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Inspectors in its Dangerous Mail Investigations Program "are trained to recognize the common characteristics of suspicious mail and are highly proficient in the use of state-of-the-art equipment to include portable X-ray machines," the USPS said.
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While some experts say China's regulators have become more proficient in analyzing and processing cases since the 2008 implementation of anti-monopoly laws, critics say antitrust rulings are still used to support critical domestic industries or drive industrial policy.
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All nine players in Indiana's rotation have offensive ratings of at least 108, and they all complement one another: Bryant, Bielfeldt, and O.G. Anunoby are proficient in the paint, while Ferrell and Nick Zeisloft are can't-miss from three.
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Once applicants are accepted, they attend a 66-day Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, New Mexico and receive an additional 40 days of Spanish-language training if they're not already proficient in Spanish, according to CBP spokesperson Greg Moore.
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The response to the coronavirus crisis, and its accompanying public service announcements, has for the most part been delivered in English by the federal government, despite the around 25 million Americans who are not proficient in the English language.
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But startup investors and experts in on-demand delivery say there is a much different set of logistical and economic challenges for moving around cargo than people, requiring a single company to be proficient in two distinct business models.
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At a breakout session, she brought up the issues in Sri Lanka, urging the company to hire more content moderators who were proficient in Sinhala and who could respond to content abusing women and minorities quickly, before a crisis hit.
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Pointing to the large gap in test scores between those who were proficient in English and those who were not, they teamed up to write Proposition 227, which made English the default language of instruction in all state public schools.
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Adding to the regulatory uncertainty, the government last year introduced requirements for foreigners to be proficient in Indonesian and for companies to hire 10 locals for every expat, only to backtrack less than 12 months later after businesses raised strong protests.
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Montreal-born O'Leary said earlier this month that he would skip the French debate until he was more "proficient" in the language and that he was committed to learning French again, seen as a crucial requirement to become prime minister.
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By contrast, at P.S. 8, in Brooklyn Heights, where 16 percent of the students are on public assistance and 3 percent are not proficient in English, 64 percent of students passed the reading tests, and 63 percent passed the math tests.
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Then there's Andrew, the young British hero of Jesse Armstrong's debut novel, "Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals," who pretends to be proficient in Serbo-Croatian so he can follow his crush to the front lines of the Bosnian war.
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You probably write "Proficient in Facebook and Twitter" on your resume in reference to posting photos of you and your friends or tweeting about your latest antics, but do you really know how to use these platforms in a professional sense?
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He suspects not, but because it's nearly impossible to find a blind person who hasn't relied on touch, or a sighted person who is extremely proficient in Braille, teasing apart the influence of brain and experience is difficult to do.
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The comedy played out as he tried to advance grand plans against the wishes of his strong-willed wife, Sybil, played by Prunella Scales, and in his frequent miscommunications with Manuel, who was from Barcelona and not proficient in English.
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And if you're one of those people who lie on their résumé about being proficient in Excel, now you can live up to the promise by taking up the Microsoft Excel from Beginner to Advanced course, which is on sale for just $10.99.
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Here's a small sample of how it read: Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook Installation/configuration of network equipment Terminating and troubleshooting twisted pair, coax, RJ45, fiber Don't get me wrong—what's here is impressive; however, it's also overwhelming and unfocused.
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The top-performing Renewal school was Public School 154 Jonathan D. Hyatt School, in the Bronx, where 27 percent of students were proficient in English this year, up from 18 percent last year — a slightly larger gain than what was seen citywide.
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Although Russia is notorious for attempting to infiltrate American society with spies working without diplomatic cover, any instance in which their efforts are exposed serves as a black eye for a country whose intelligence services remain among the most proficient in the world.
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On the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, given to a sample of fourth graders across the country, 72 percent of Texas students were not proficient in reading — a fact the state has cited as evidence that tough local standards are warranted.
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The statement noted its Dangerous Mail Investigations Program includes law enforcement officers who "are trained to recognize the common characteristics of suspicious mail and are highly proficient in the use of state-of-the-art equipment to include portable X-ray machines."
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Beisel, who earned her undergraduate degree in communications, also found time to work in the sports department at her local NBC affiliate in Providence, R.I. She interviewed athletes from almost every sport except swimming and became proficient in putting together story packages.
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Israel is one of many countries — ranging from Sri Lanka to Myanmar — where the social network has been accused of having too few content moderators proficient in local languages, leaving the company incapable of enforcing its own rules against hate speech and content inciting violence.
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To explain his thinking in laymen's terms, Shah points to the way a human who is relatively proficient in driving in one city can quickly adapt to the differences in a completely new city, without having to be given extra training or instruction beforehand.
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And that is why companies who deal with data (spoiler alert: that's quite literally everyone) are willing to pay top dollar to people who are proficient in SQL so they can make sense of the mounds of data they receive on a regular basis.
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You can get these mugs at Starbucks' first U.S. Signing Store in Washington D.C. Starbucks opened its first U.S. store for Deaf and hard-of-hearing customers in Washington, D.C. The cafe's employees are proficient in American Sign Language and wear aprons with fingerspelling.
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So many annoying misconceptions out there, like that we're amazing lovers, intellectuals, a band of Don Drapers, irresistible to women and men alike, proficient in the art of romance, didn't write any of our own songs, put together by Levi's to sell more jeans.
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One rapper who's especially proficient in discussing exactly how much he's making is Nines, the northwest London MC with an album coming via XL later this year, who's new track "High Roller" is pretty much an ode to getting as much money as possible.
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Since there aren't enough engineers who are already proficient in coding for AR/VR to meet the hiring demand, Hired says engineers are increasingly looking to self-teaching methods to broaden their skill set, in addition to seeking out computer science training in school.
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While there's a lot of grey area for recruiters to navigate on any given CV (what does proficient in Microsoft Word actually mean?), certifications are more black and white and signal to recruiters you, in fact, have a level of authority in your chosen field.
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Still, if students living in poverty are less than half as likely to be proficient in reading and math, then it seems clear that local leaders should be committing substantially more resources to schools with 90 percent low-income students than those with 20 percent.
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Williamson may not be our next president, but this kind of half-parodic campaign — in which disengaged voters proficient in memes plumb the psychic undercurrents of the American electorate to forge an ambivalent relationship with the candidate's official efforts — may just be our future.
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"This is an environment like nowhere else in the world, it could very quickly become a battlespace that would be a reality to compete in, and as special operators who can be any place, any time, we must be proficient in every environment," said Niebes.
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Only 29% of fourth-graders (aged 9-10) in Texas and 31% of their counterparts in California are proficient in reading at their grade level, compared with 35% nationally, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which measures student achievement (see charts on next page).
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The goal is to get coders proficient in the basics and core concepts, so they can take the next steps in their coding education – whether that's taking online classes, attending a bootcamp, or playing around in Grasshopper's own online playground where they can create interactive animations.
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Dating isn't a talent, I'm not trying to become proficient in the art of embroidery, what I'm doing is trying to get to know someone through the information being fed to me, while also trying to feed information across the table that is genuine and even desirable.
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The latest state assessments for reading and maths for pupils in the third to eighth grades (roughly between the ages of 8 and 14) still show stark differences—60% of pupils in Newark's charter schools were proficient in English, compared with just 35% in the traditional public schools.
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The bottom line: Decades of research shows that less than 25% of middle and high school students are proficient in civics — and that gap widens for students of color, low income students and students with disabilities, groups that are all likely to face additional barriers to civic engagement.
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Many, I am sure — indeed I hope — will choose to go to law school to become more proficient in the details of how laws are made, enforced and changed in the endless pursuit of equal justice, opportunity, freedom from fear and want, and on behalf of individual expression.
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He became proficient in Pashto, a language spoken in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, and for a time worked as a translator for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he helped Afghans traumatized by violence and death from the American-led war against the Taliban.
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Andy from Frightened Rabbit is extremely proficient in operating music software and has built a really great working studio in Glasgow, so we're going to allow him to take the reins and make a lot more decisions for ourselves this time, based on everything that we've learned in over a decade.
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TL;DR: The Microsoft Project 2019 A to Z bundle is a set of online courses that are on sale for $29.99, a savings of $167 We all claim to be proficient in Microsoft's big-name programs, but it's actually some of its lesser-known programs that can catch a recruiter's eye.
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Especially when (according to the DHS inspector general) ICE has not adequately monitored or enforced its own Performance-Based National Detention Standards to insure safety, security, order, medical care, justice, communication assistance for individuals who are not proficient in English, compliance with sexual assault, abuse and disability accommodation laws, and suicide prevention.
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At Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, N.J., the Center for English Language, Acquisition and Culture (CELAC), the instructors focus on helping students become proficient in English, while still allowing them to speak and write in their native language, said Nicole Houser, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the university.
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Asked if the company had reviewers proficient in the other languages besides Burmese that are used widely in Myanmar, a spokeswoman said only that when content is reported that is not in one of the languages covered by the company, Facebook works with people familiar with the language to determine if the content violates standards.
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"If a school is a turnaround school, you need to give them a principal that knows how to turn around schools," said Brian A. Benjamin, a state senator, who came up with the idea to have the school collaborate with Frederick Douglass, where 30 percent of middle school students were proficient in math last year.
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Even those with high-level skills are making plans in case of Brexit — and even Plan Bs and Cs. Proficient in five languages, Ms. Martinsone, 34, who is from a rural town in Latvia, started her career at Latvia's Foreign Ministry but took a sabbatical to pursue a master's degree in political economy in Britain in 2008.
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Academic performance is improving in schools, but achievement gaps remain: Of the 11th graders at Jesse Bethel High School, which is in the 94591 ZIP code, 42 percent of black students and 223 percent of Hispanic ones tested proficient in English this year, compared with 221 percent of white students and 294591 percent of Filipino ones.
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Thanks to Dr. Simran Jeet Singh's viral tweet and the resurfacing of your September advice column, "Couple Must Choose Between Practical and Unusual Names for Children," I was able to read it and found most of your comments to be, to borrow your word, extremely "grating" -- both in English and the two other languages I'm moderately proficient in.
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" The motion further claims that "Nxivm members have sought to end the violence in Mexico, have introduced tools useful to people with difficult conditions, such as Tourette's syndrome, have pioneered multi-linguistic schools for young children, who would become proficient in multiple languages and later multi-cultural adults, and have developed approaches to help people lead happier, more productive, more enriched lives.
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But it is absolutely ludicrous that while less than one in three New York state kids in grades three through eight are proficient in reading and writing, and barely over one in three in math (and only about 22 percent of eighth graders), Deutermann and other parents like her are more worried about their kids' feelings being hurt than their education being hurt.
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At the same time, media outlets have been falling all over themselves to cover Pete Buttigieg, the polyglot mayor of South Bend, IN. Buttigieg, who has recently experienced a surge in the polls and has raised an impressive $7 million in this year's first quarter, reportedly either speaks or is proficient in, in addition to English, French, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Arabic, Maltese, and Dari.
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The unflappable head of the House Democratic Caucus has emerged as a fiercely disciplined party spin doctor, proficient in promoting the Democrats' ambitious agenda and attacking President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in cataclysmic terms, often in the same breath.
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With statistics showing that a student drops out of school approximately each minute, that the vast majority of 4th and 8th graders are not proficient in reading and math, and that far too many high school graduates require remediation (costing an estimated $7 billion annually), it should be crystal clear to policymakers that we need to rethink the "system" and focus instead on the needs of families and children.
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