EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Filipino children have the right to high-quality education that: is accessible; provides knowledge, skills, and wisdom for students to become active, thinking, useful, and compassionate members of society; is a partner—not a saboteur—in the cultural diversity of the country; empowers individuals to appreciate, adapt, and contribute to local, national and international life; …
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Judging from comments or requests for information/clarification regarding the K to 12 and MTB-MLE programs — which reached a fever pitch the last few weeks as the new school year, 2012-2013, rolled in — there is quite a heap of confusion regarding the implementation of both programs. But rather than curse the darkness, let’s light …
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By Queena N. Lee-Chua Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday, March 25th, 2012 The Philippines is supposedly one of only three countries with a 10-year basic education. Others have 12. But this is not exactly accurate. “We tend to think of basic education and pre-university education as the same,” says National Scientist and mathematician Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, …
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A Hail Mary pass or Hail Mary route in American football refers to any very long forward pass made in desperation with only a small chance of success with very little time left in either half, but usually toward the end of a game. It was made famous in describing the game-winning touchdown pass by …
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In the following post, Isagani Cruz continues from his previous post,”HEIs and K to 12“. K to 12 and GEC By Isagani Cruz MINI CRITIQUE, The Philippine Star, March 22, 2012 The second fear that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have about the K to 12 reform involves teachers who teach subjects in the General Education …
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As mentioned in a previous post, “Daily Inquirer to run series on K to 12″, the following is the first of columnist Queena N. Lee-Chua‘s effort to throw light on the K to 12 program: Straight talk on K to 12 By Queena N. Lee-Chua Philippine Daily Inquirer The K to 12 Basic Education Program, …
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Starting with the article below dated March 18, 2012, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, brings forth a series on the K+12 Basic Education Program which shall be implemented in ALL public schools starting June 2012 (SY 2012-2013). The Inquirer invited the Secretary of Education himself to explain the logic of the reform in this issue. Queena Lee-Chua, …
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By Ricardo Ma. D. Nolasco Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 17, 2012 People in the know are flabbergasted by the headlong rush of the Department of Education to implement mother tongue-based education in ALL public schools in the coming school year. First of all, the new curricula for kindergarten and Grade 1—which integrate the learners’ first …
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For those who are given the responsibility to design and/or tweak the K+12 curriculum that will be implemented in all public schools starting SY 2012-2013, I offer the following — especially the video by super-teacher Sal Khan, author of the internationally popular Khan Academy — as a must-consider option to improve the conventional method of …
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5 advocacy guides to improve pre-service teacher education:
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Multilingual Education for All in Asia and the Pacific: Policies, Practices and Processes. 4th International Conference on Language and Education. Nov. 6-8, 2013, Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Correspondence related to the conference may be addressed to: Ms. Panyaphat Piam-o-pad, International Conference Secretariat Coordinator (mleconf2013@gmail.com) or Ms. Kyungah Kristy Bang, MLE Secretariat Coordinator (k.bang@unesco.org).
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First Things First: A Commentary on K+12
bilingual education, DepED Order #74 s. 2009, Education For All (EFA), K-12 Basic Education Cycle, Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education
April 5, 2012
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April 5, 2012
By Angel C. de Dios Department of Chemistry Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 a_c_de_dios@yahoo.com (The views expressed here are those of the author and do not represent Georgetown University.) The basic education system of the Philippines faces two major problems: (1) high dropout rates in primary and secondary schools, and (2) lack of mastery of …
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