MANILA, Philippines — All schools will be required to hold whole-day reading programs every Friday starting January as part of the Department of Education’s newest initiative to boost students’ ...

(2nd UPDATE) Despite setbacks, the Department of Education says the report shows 'encouraging signs of learning recovery and progress among Filipino learners' in contrast to the 2019 data MANILA, ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY (PIA)— Zamboanga City has been selected as the pilot site for the Department of Education’s (DepEd) flagship reading recovery initiative, Bawat Bata Makababasa (BBM). This 20-day ...

Reading comprehension is one of the challenges that the Department of Education (DepEd) has been dealing with after the pandemic. One of proofs of these challenges is the result of the English reading ...

LEGAZPI CITY, Albay (PIA) — The Department of Education (DepEd) Region 5 has partnered with teacher education institutions (TEIs) to address the low rate of reading comprehension and numeracy among ...

MANILA, Philippines — In a bid to boost literacy, the Departments of Education (DepEd) and Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) are aiming to teach 207,000 students to read through the “Tara, Basa!” ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) vowed "aggressive reforms" in key areas of the basic education system amid the Philippines' poor showing in reading comprehension in a global survey Programme for ...

CEBU CITY—At least 75 percent of Grade 3 students in Central Visayas still do not know how to read or have low reading comprehension. Dr. Salustiano Jimenez, regional director of the Department of ...

The “Matatag” curriculum of the Department of Education (DepEd) starts the English reading competency in the first semester of Grade 2, an improvement on the K-12 curriculum which introduces the ...