BATTLE VS. ILLITERACY. Quezon City Public Library staff Rosalie Teologo reads stories to children in Kamuning, Quezon City in this undated photo. A World Bank study released in June 2022 said learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70 percent of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written text. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - A recent education summit in Baguio City revealed that only four out of 10 students in Grades 4 to 7aged 9 to 12 can properly read or write in English, based on the results of pretests and post-tests done from 2021 to 2022. The same tests showed that less than half of learners from Grades 3 to 7 aged 8 to 9 could read or write in Filipino. In Cagayan province, a survey posted on its official website on Jan. 9 said 12.72 percent or 29,529 out of 231,667 learners enrolled in public schools cannot read. The literacy rate in the province is 49.52 percent,bared the 2017-2018 Early Language
Following reports of low literacy rates among learners in different parts of the country, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing for a proposed measure that will mobilize local government units (LGUs) to achieve zero illiteracy. In an education summit recently held in Baguio City, it was revealed that only four out…
Part 2 Agenda 2 has to do with improving the quality of instruction and teachers with the target that all learners meet basic skills based on international standards. Teachers should be trained for their empowerment as well as for the creation of context-based learning materials.
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The mass media has been recently bombarded with information about the poor quality of Philippine education. The public has been presented almost ad nauseam with data on the Philippines having the highest learning poverty in the Indo-Pacific region and Philippine 15-year-old students
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