Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
Quotes about proficiency (16 Quotes)
Every Aryan should become computer literate, become connected to the Internet, and learn how to use it to spread our truth and awaken our race. Internet proficiency is as important to our cause as was learning to use a sword in the Middle Ages, or a long rifle in the American Revolution.
This plan does not take away one's native language. It does not take away one's heritage or culture. It is designed to accelerate that child's English proficiency.
It makes you question whether the definition of 'proficiency' any place is anchored in real-world demands.
It's exciting to see more and more students receive proficiency. But we are constantly seeking to improve the achievement gap.
If companies work with outsourcers to build a structure that requires accent neutralization, cultural affinity, and a company product background -- if it makes the investment in their people -- then the performance could be good. But if they are merely going to a lowest-cost location, to an area that has already been mined for agents with English proficiency, then their customer service will falter.
The best way to accelerate global leadership development is to have a sound framework. It is important to identify what lessons and performance demands are needed to build international business proficiency, and to find key talent and focus attention on the fast learners.
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
It takes constant practice and reinforcement, in terms of our cognitive development of our brain. The younger you start a foreign language, the more likely you are to develop proficiency in it ... a student who is 18 has a leg up on someone who is 40, just like an elementary student will have a leg up on a college student, and may have a chance to achieve near-native proficiency.
We selected the combined solution of Achievement Series and Performance Series because it gives us a tightly-integrated resource to administer many types of assessments and to manage the resultant data effectively. Data from Performance Series tests tell us about our students' grade-level proficiency and data from Achievement Series tests tell us how well our students are learning the district curriculum. Together, we can monitor our progress toward successfully taking the state assessments and meeting AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress).
The fact that more than half of our students have not yet achieved proficiency on the state's content standards, and that a wide achievement gap continues, shows how much work still needs to be done,
We are very proud to be recognized for developing a successful specialized science curriculum as a direct result of this grant. An even prouder accomplishment is having our students raise their science proficiency so dramatically to have earned the title 'top performing.' We are very proud of both them and their instructors.
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.
Today's good-paying jobs demand not only strong academic skills, but also technical training and computer proficiency, ... While our area offers world-class four-year and advanced degrees, we fall far short when it comes to teaching basic job skills and preparing our young people to deal with new and emerging technologies.
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.