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MANILA (Reuters) – “A good book is easy to find” reads the sign on Hernando Guanlao’s two-storey home located on the outskirts of the Philippines’ main financial district which he has turned into a public library where…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Blended learning in 2023 was affirmed to be ‘more advantageous and beneficial’ for the students’ learning. This was according to the assessment conducted by the regional director of the Department of Education (DepEd)…
After more than a century living with a macabre mystery, the US town of Reading, Pennsylvania closed the casket Saturday on its oddest-ever resident — a mummified man who was finally buried. Crowds of people have lined…
CEBU CITY, Philippines— Reading has always been one of the many things one can do to pass time or learn more about certain things. For some, reading helps ease the tension they are currently feeling. Some may…
WASHINGTON — The death toll from an explosion at a chocolate factory in the US state of Pennsylvania rose to three Saturday with four people missing, local officials said, as rescuers raced against the clock to find…
MANILA, Philippines—As most Grade 5 students in the Philippines and its poorer neighbors do not have the minimum reading and mathematical skills expected at the end of primary education, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) stressed the…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Reading is a way to a better learning experience. This is what Jeda Toreteo, a Grade 7 student of Oprra National High School, has said following the turn-over of the “mini-library” project of…
Reading sucks. In 2017, when I was in the ninth grade, I remember classmates who boasted about how they could finish 600-page books in six hours. One friend would mention Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” another friend talked of…
CEBU CITY, Philippines —How do you start your day? How you wake up each day and your morning routine generally affects your levels of success in all areas of your life. According to Hal Elrod in his book…
I had heard since well over a year ago about how our country landed at the very bottom on the global Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) scores, but it’s only recently that I had the chance…
The problem in Bicol is not about literacy but about reading comprehension, Education Secretary Leonor Briones said on Monday, as she sought to correct and clarify an Inquirer report saying that some 70,000 students in the region…
LILOAN, Cebu — Grade 3 pupils Zaira Anne Olasima and Vanessa Navarro learned how to read when they were in first grade using the textbooks issued by the Department of Education (DepEd) to public school children like…
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