Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) estimated that 18.9 million Filipinos were functionally illiterate. For a few days, FLEMMS enjoyed front-page coverage, mainly because ...

The Department of Education  and the Second Congressional Commission on Education or EDCOM 2 have cited the improvement of ...

In a recent podcast, President Marcos said one of the problems with our basic education system is that the performance of teachers is pegged to the number of students, such that a teacher who passes a ...

DepEd and Microsoft expand AI-powered reading tools to boost literacy and empower Filipino learners nationwide.

Castillo said in Cordillera, teachers implement a comprehensive rapid literacy assessment tool which is a diagnostic test for Grades 1 to 3 pupils to determine whether they are qualified to enter ...

Thanks to the Comprehensive Rapid Literacy Assessment (CRLA) — developed by ABC+ (Advancing Basic Education in the Philippines) in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) — we now have ...

FDA leaders believe that AI can make a “first-pass” at the nearly 500,000 pages of documents included in applications received by the agency.

Literacy commitment. During the Regional Dissemination Forum on the 2024 FLEMMS results, DepEd Northern Mindanao Chief Education Supervisor Mala Epra B. Magnaong emphasized the need to strengthen ...

Amid growing concerns over declining literacy rates and post-pandemic learning recovery, education advocates on Friday, May 30, called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to expand its reading ...

The failure to enforce DO 45, s. 2002, is deliberate. In 2006, then Secretary Jesli Lapus had implicitly admitted that one reason for the declining literacy at the time was the non-implementation of ...

education in the Philippines [ANALYSIS] Functional literacy: More than just a statistic, and what we must do about it ...