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In English, 53.8% of Compton students are proficient or better, up 2.8 percentage points from last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Founded in 1989 by Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward, Chesapeake became proficient at fracking for natural gas and in the 2000s grew at breakneck speed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

They can be technically proficient, maybe even a little funny, but there is always an underlying cadence of the uncanny valley that I still doubt Suno v6 pro et al. or whatever has totally overcome.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Compared with 2023, when AI was still nascent, there’s been an overall drop from 51.7% to 50.3% of New York City students scoring proficient in reading and writing, with eighth-graders seeing the steepest decline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

So how about the opposite case: what if a mother and father are not only proficient in English but spend their weekends broadening their child’s cultural horizons by taking him to museums?

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt