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When Educators Stay Silent, Corruption Wins

Each time floodwaters rise in our cities, so does public outrage. Every deluge brings renewed scrutiny of the Department of Public Works and Highways and its flood control projects, many of them overpriced, substandard, or unfinished, according to the Commission on Audit.

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Published at 2025-09-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Education, Politics

Tags: CHED, School, University, research

Bridging the Gap: Ensuring Digital Equity in Enhanced Learning Environments

Discussing strategies to ensure digital equity in enhanced learning environments.

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Published at 2024-01-24 by NPS-School

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An Overview of Press Release: Considerations and Goals

Many times the best way to highlight or create a buzz around products, partnerships or any noteworthy development is to send out a press release, a document that consists of all the facts. This in turn is sent to various media outlets and more often than not nudges the journalists to take note and cover a larger story that helps build trust for the brand and audience.

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Published at 2023-08-04 by Inkrepublique

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Years of Remote Schooling Exacerbate 'learning Poverty' Among Filipino Children

After two years of distance learning and with months to go before the resumption of face-to-face classes in November, nine out of 10 Filipino children are still struggling to read simple texts by age 10.

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Published at 2022-07-22 by Puerto Parrot

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Time to Address a Serious Learning Crisis

At a Senate hearing last year, the Department of Education (DepEd) reported that enrollment from kindergarten to senior high school for school year 2020-2021 was estimated at 23 million or 83 percent of the 27.7 million enrolled previously. When Senator Nancy Binay asked DepEd Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan if this meant there would be millions more out-of-school youth, the answer was, “Yes, Madam Senator.”

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Published at 2021-04-19 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Education, Health

Tags: COVID-19, children

Flaws Aside, Online Learning Takes Toll on Students' Mental Health

KJ Catequista suffers panic attacks whenever she receives text messages on her mobile phone from teachers of what could well be simple reminders to parents about their children’s missed deadlines. Often, it takes hours for Catequista, a mother of three, to finally open the group chat app with other parents, nervously scrolling down the names of students and silently praying that those of her children are not listed among those lagging behind.

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Published at 2021-04-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Health, People

Tags: COVID-19, children

Philippines Faces ‘learning Crisis’ After Yearlong School Shutdown

Andrix Serrano studies alone inside a Manila slum shack he shares with his street-sweeper grandmother. Like many in his fourth-grade class, he has no internet for his shuttered school’s online lessons. A year after the coronavirus pandemic sent the Philippines into a months-long lockdown, classrooms across the country remain empty and children are still stuck at home.

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Published at 2021-03-16 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Legal, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, Duterte, School, children, students

PH's Grade 4 Students Lowest in Math, Science Around the World — Int'l Study

Filipino students ranked lowest among 58 countries in an international assessment for mathematics and science for Grade 4 students, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2019 (TIMSS) uncovered.

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Published at 2020-12-10 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Technology

Tags: Filipino, international, science, students

Why Dreams Die

They taught us in school that we have to dream realistic dreams—because dreaming of becoming Darna just doesn’t pay monthly bills. So we were given a wide variety of options: nurse, accountant, engineer, lawyer, doctor, teacher… or something that “actually pays” and is “economically practical.”

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Published at 2020-12-01 by Puerto Parrot

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Usaid Provides Laptops for Out-Of-School Youth

The U.S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), turned over 150 laptop computers, printers, projectors, and 80 sets of learning materials to the Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday, October 6, as part of the United States’ ongoing commitment to support the Philippine government’s Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Published at 2020-10-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, News and Events, Technology

Tags: COVID-19, DepEd, Education

Remote Learning Begins at Schools in Coronavirus-hit Philippines

Grade school and high school students in the Philippines began classes at home on Monday (Oct 5). Nearly 25 million students enrolled this year, mostly in 47,000 public schools nationwide that would have to be replicated in homes and enlist the help of parents and guardians as co-teachers.

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Published at 2020-10-06 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Education, Technology

Tags: COVID-19, Education, School, students

Education in Philippines

The education system of the Philippines has been highly influenced by the country’s colonial history. That history has included periods of Spanish, American and Japanese rule and occupation.

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Published at 2020-09-19 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Society

Tags: Education, System

Headlines 3 Million Students Still Unenrolled: 'Lost Generation' Must Catch Up

When the Department of Education (DepEd) began the virtual enrollment of millions of students in June, Janet Villamar, 44, braced for a conversation any parent fears. Like millions of others, her family was being buffeted by the perfect storm of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economically devastating lockdown. Her husband, who had been eking out a daily income from selling old bottles to neighbors, was now cloistered at home.

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Published at 2020-09-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Society, Technology

Tags: COVID-19, Education, Kids, Philippines, School, System, children, students

Pasig Allots ₱1.3B for Laptops, Blended Learning Program Implementation

The Pasig City government has set aside than around ₱1.3 billion to support the needs of teachers and students once the country's education system shifts to blended learning in October, Mayor Vico Sotto said Wednesday.

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Published at 2020-09-09 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, People, Technology

Tags: COVID-19, DepEd, Education

DepEd Holds Webinar for Parents, Teachers on Child Rights Amid COVID-19

The Department of Education (DepEd) will be holding a series of webinars as they recognize how the landscape of child rights might change in the learning environment amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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Published at 2020-09-08 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Health, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, DepEd, Education, Rights