3 stand-alone books that may help fix your ‘reading slump’

Jessa Ngojo - CDN Social Media Specialist 04/23/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – You may not be the only one with stacks of unwrapped books just lurking in the corner, waiting for you to lay your eyes on them. You may have enjoyed reading during your…

Philippine ‘library home’ stacked with books to inspire reading

03/04/2024

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…

Blended learning more advantageous for students, says DepEd-7

Pia Piquero 12/22/2023

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)…

‘Stoneman Willie’: Mummified man in US town finally buried after a century

Agence France Presse 10/08/2023

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…

The art of Self-Help Books

Immae Lachica 09/04/2023

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…

Death toll in US chocolate factory explosion rises to three

Agence France Presse 03/26/2023

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…

Southeast Asia rank: PH 2nd to worst in Grade 5 students’ reading, math skills

Kurt Dela Peña - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 01/26/2023

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…

What Cebu City Jail inmates did to help Oppra students to develop reading skills

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 06/19/2022

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…

Why we’re disinterested in reading

Stephen Suba - @inquirerdotnet 12/06/2021

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…

Start your day right with a ‘Morning Miracle’

Doris Mondragon 04/13/2021

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…

Our education disaster

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 04/06/2021

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…

Pupils’ problem not literacy but reading comprehension – DepEd

Leila B. Salaverria, Meg Adonis 02/18/2020

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…

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