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How chronic underfunding killed the once-celebrated mother tongue education

By Cristina Chi | October 15, 2024 - 5:20pm

What went wrong? The consensus among education experts, even before the passage of the law removing the mother tongue policy,...

Headlines

Bill ending mother tongue education lapses into law

By Kristine Daguno-Bersamina | October 12, 2024 - 3:22pm

A bill that would discontinue the use of the mother tongue in multilingual classes from Kindergarten to Grade 3 has lapsed...

Headlines

LIVE: Senate hearing on mother tongue as language of instruction

By PhilstarLIVE | July 3, 2023 - 10:34am

The Senate Committee on Basic Education is holding a hearing on the implementation of the use of the mother tongue —...

Headlines

House OKs suspension of using mother tongue to teach young learners

By Cristina Chi | February 6, 2023 - 7:44pm

The suspension is meant to help DepEd and school districts develop enough materials to fully implement the use of the mother...

Headlines

Mother tongue sa K-12 ipa-review ni PJ

By Le Phyllis F. Antojado-Orillaneda | January 24, 2020 - 12:00am

Buot ni Deputy Speaker Pablo John Garcia sa ikatulong distrito sa Lalawigan sa Sugbo nga ma-review ang balaud sa K-12 Program ilabi na ang pagtudlo sa mother-tongue sa basic education sa unang mga tuig sa pagtungha...

Banat Balita

Administrators panicking?

By Isagani Cruz | July 17, 2014 - 12:00am

As president of a small college, I have nightmares about 2016.

Education and Home

Clash of local tongues

By Ligaya Rabago-Visaya | May 31, 2014 - 12:00am

The issues surrounding language development are myriad and complicated as we deal with its varieties and dynamics.

Freeman Opinion

The SHS curriculum

By Isagani Cruz | May 1, 2014 - 12:00am

To understand the curriculum for Senior High School (SHS) or Grades 11 and 12 (available on the DepEd website), we have to remember the main reason we added the two grades in the first place.

Education and Home

English in private schools

By Isagani Cruz | January 23, 2014 - 12:00am

Parents of elementary school students should realize that there is a big difference between learning a language and using a language as medium of instruction.

Education and Home

English in private schools

By Isagani Cruz | January 16, 2014 - 12:00am

Many parents send their children to private schools because of their impression that private school students speak better English than their public school counterparts.

Education and Home