proficiency
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Graduation rates, meanwhile, continue to rise—even as dozens of the city’s schools have failed to educate a single student to grade-level proficiency, according to the watchdog group Wirepoints.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
But in his address to the diaspora gathering, Ruto said Kenya's education system produced strong English proficiency and that it was difficult to understand Nigerians when they spoke English.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
The court determined that the trial judge failed to inform his lawyers that some of the jurors raised questions about the English proficiency of one of the panel members and ordered a retrial.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Such seamless technologies teach us that repair and understanding is not our role and that such proficiency and knowledge is unnecessary.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026
This was owing largely to the eleven years she had spent caring for her invalid mother, which had left her with some proficiency as a nurse and an inability to face strong sunlight without blinking.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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Twelve Years a Slave
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