NUSP calls for immediate actions to help students, families during COVID-19 lockdown

As the country continues to face the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic with a number of cities and provinces placed under enhanced community quarantine, an alliance of student councils called for the immediate termination of the current semester, instead of pushing through with online classes or extending the semester.

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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. A total of 2,732 students of Mintal Comprehensive High School in Barangay Mintal, Davao City line up for the first flag ceremony of the school year during the opening of classes on Monday, June 5. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

K to 12 made PH students’ reading skills worse – ACT

The country's poor ranking in the recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) only validates the school problems that teachers have been raising.

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BACK TO SCHOOL. A total of 52 pupils are going to occupy this classroom in Davao City’s Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Central Elementary School for school year 2013-14. The room’s capacity should be for 44 pupils only, the teacher said Monday. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers said the country lacks 32,644 classrooms, 2.5 Million chairs and 60 M textbooks for this school year. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Review K-12 which enforces homework, says ACT

Congress wants to stop teachers from giving homework. This sounds like a good proposal, except that this is a requirement of K to 12.

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