MARAWI CITY (PIA)–Literacy is a powerful tool against poverty. One of the objectives of the Childhood Rescue Project is to assist its partners in developing and contextualizing tools that can identify ...

A FAIRLY new term, functional literacy, is now used to determine the state of literacy in the country. On April 4, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the results of its 2024 Functional ...

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FUNCTIONAL illiteracy in the Philippines is a pressing issue that demands urgent attention. The 2024 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey showed that 18.9 million Filipinos aged 10 to ...

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On the heels of a troubling “report card ” on reading and math skills among American students, a global test of adult skills suggests older generations may echo those problems. The 2017 results of the ...

CALAMBA CITY, Laguna (PIA) – The Calabarzon region recorded the third-highest functional literacy rate nationwide according to the 2024 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) ...

NAPLAN results have again shown roughly one-third of students are not meeting expectations in literacy and numeracy. The results also show concerning trends with students in remote areas, Indigenous ...