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People Power 3

By Isagani Cruz | October 1, 2009 - 12:00am

Facebook was the place to be last weekend for those connected to the Web but unable to leave their homes (such as me, since I was still recovering from my operation).

Education and Home

My mini-cholecystectomy

By Isagani Cruz | September 24, 2009 - 12:00am

Two weeks ago, upon reading the results of my executive check-up last month at St. Luke’s Medical Center, my cardiologist, Dr. Vincent Valencia, advised me to have a cholecystectomy or gall bladder remova...

Education and Home

Juan and Johnny cannot read

By Isagani Cruz | September 17, 2009 - 12:00am

We like to bash ourselves by saying that our educational system is terrible.

Education and Home

Gawad Dangal ng Wikang Filipino

By Isagani Cruz | September 3, 2009 - 12:00am

I was lucky to have been one of this year’s awardees of the Gawad Dangal ng Wikang Filipino, given by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) last Friday at the Century Park Hotel.

Education and Home

Marikina, the book

By Isagani Cruz | August 13, 2009 - 12:00am

Here are excerpts from my speech during the launching last month of The Will to Change: Marikina and Its Innovations, edited by Dennis T. Gonzalez:

Education and Home

Baler Sa Puso Ko

By Isagani Cruz | August 6, 2009 - 12:00am

The sarswela (Filipino musical) that Senator Edgardo Angara commissioned me to write, Baler Sa Puso Ko, with music by Lutgardo Labad, opens on June 12, Wednesday, in Baler, Aurora.

Education and Home

Cultural literacy in high school

By Isagani Cruz | July 16, 2009 - 12:00am

Let us look at the last part of the standard expected of every high school graduate: “The learner demonstrates literary and communicative competence through his/her understanding of the different genres of...

Education and Home

Literary genres

By Isagani Cruz | July 9, 2009 - 12:00am

The second half of the standard expected of every high school graduate needs explanation: “The learner demonstrates literary and communicative competence through his/her understanding of the different genres...

Education and Home

English in high school

By Isagani Cruz | July 2, 2009 - 12:00am

Starting June 2010, the approach to the teaching of English in high school will be very different from what it is now.

Education and Home

The new curriculum

By Isagani Cruz | June 25, 2009 - 12:00am

“We cannot equip the youth of the future with the tools of the past,” wrote former DepEd Undersecretary and UNESCO Principal Director Victor Ordoñez in his blog shortly before he died.

Education and Home