by FEU Public Policy Center | Feb 24, 2022 | News, Reforming the Philippine Education System
Artwork by Alyssa Arizabal (httpswww.instagram.comalyssaarzbl) The spotty quality of Philippine basic education is something we knew anecdotally but until the PISA results of 2018, did not have objective evidence to bring this into a national discourse on education...
by FEU Public Policy Center | Feb 24, 2022 | News, Reforming the Philippine Education System
Artwork by Alyssa Arizabal (https://www.instagram.com/alyssaarzbl) THE TRANSITION FROM ELEMENTARY LEARNING The transition from elementary education to junior high is a complex one because it marks a transition from childhood to adolescence (ages 11-12 to 16-17). ...
by FEU Public Policy Center | Nov 27, 2021 | News, Reforming the Philippine Education System
Artwork by Alyssa Arizabal (https://www.instagram.com/alyssaarzbl) PRIMARY LEARNING METRICS The upper primary years of Grades 4 to 6 are the years when students should be going a level up from the simple literacy and numeracy skills of the 3Rs (Reading, wRiting, and...
by FEU Public Policy Center | Oct 13, 2021 | News, Reforming the Philippine Education System
In 2018, the Philippines participated for the first time in the PISA international assessment test for 15-year olds (Programme for International Student Assessment). The headline news was that the Philippines scored lowest in Reading and second lowest in...
by FEU Public Policy Center | Sep 23, 2021 | News, Reforming the Philippine Education System
Art by Alyssa Arizabal (https://www.instagram.com/alyssaarzbl/ Kindergarten is the first step in formal education in what should be a 12-year basic education journey. There is a Chinese proverb ascribed to Laozhi (Chapter 64 of the Dao De Jing) that...