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Meaning of Proficient:
MEANING OF
"PROFICIENT" VARIES ACROSS COUNTRY Judged solely by recent statewide
tests, fourth graders in Mississippi and Colorado would appear to be the
best young readers in the nation. In both states, 87 percent of fourth
graders passed their exams. But Mississippi came in dead last among the
50 states when fourth-grade reading was
examined using a different standard, a newly mandated but decades-old
test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or N.A.E.P.
On that test, only 18 percent of Mississippi's fourth graders achieved
proficiency....
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Top Ten Tip for Achieving and Maintaining your AYP:
Many of my recent interactions with administrators and teachers turn to
the same subject, Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The stress level is
high as educators try to determine how to maintain the AYP they have
already achieved or how to reach an AYP goal that has not been met.
School personnel tend to spend a great deal of time analyzing test
scores from the previous year's statewide testing program; there is,
however, much data beyond the state test scores that we need to
consider....
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