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Sobering wake-up call for DepEd

January 23, 2026
With the Philippines’ basic literacy rate pegged at some 93 percent, it comes as a shock to learn from a recent report that the proficiency rate among Filipino learners has declined precipitously as they went through the country’s education system. According to the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2), Filipino schoolchildren went from a […]
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