“Enhancing the quality of basic education in the Philippines is urgent and critical.” 2. “The poor quality of basic education is reflected in the low achievement scores of Filipino students. One reason is that students do not get adequate instructional time or time on task.” 3. International test results consistently show Filipino students lagging way behind practically everybody else in the world. In the 2008 mathematics exam, for example, we came in dead last. 4. “The congested curriculum partly
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patriarch, was seen in different levels of his manipulation on the lives of the newlyweds. In parallel with this situation is the Marcos’ reign along with his obsolete parliament. This clearly showed the oppression that Marcos possessed towards the Filipinos during his time such as the midnight-to-dawn curfew and the limitation of what the media can report out to the people. If anything, the patriarchy shown by the film made us realized that it was also the convention among families during Marcos’ reign
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experience emotional adjustment and change their academic performance in school in terms of attendance, socialization and activeness in class. Having an OFW parents the children have a big adjustment. According to CFO (2006), there are 8.23 million Filipinos abroad, many of them have left their children may be wanting for affection and time. Worse, they may be prone to emotional and psychological distress. In addition Edillon (2008) mentioned that one of the activities that could enhanced the relationship
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and honor, where he offer justice under the tenets of the law that protects the innocent. Achiever Despite difficulties laid before him, with all support being denied as an opposition, he stood with one goal to achieve that is to serve the Filipino Mandate. His public service track of record is a monument of his labor and achievements. Result Oriented Knowing what results are important and focuses resources to successfully accomplish them. The problems besetting the country, of energy
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Reading Education in the Philippines Posted on Monday, February 27, 2012 Filipinos have been fighting for their rights to education. Our forefathers struggled just so they would be allowed to read and write – to be educated. Today we have much more freedom than our lolos and lolas. We now have more sovereignty to study and learn. However, not every Filipino has the ability and capacity to cherish this freedom to read and write. Many factors constrain others from fully enjoying the said right.
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were fueled by money. In this concern, this section simply aims to have an honest public servant that would serve with integrity and this section also promotes working with loyalty to the country and loyalty to our fellow countrymen. Section 12. Filipino Family One of the things I love in our culture is the way we give importance and value the sanctity of family. Here in our country, we often regard family as the supporting figures of how we build ourselves and of how
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National Artist; with typical scholarly modesty, he said that he simply didn’t know her work well enough to make that judgment. Rather, he was using Jalandoni’s case to draw attention to the gross disadvantage at which Filipino writers working in languages other than English and Filipino lie, particularly when it comes to recognition on a national or international level. While they may have achieved much in their own literature in, say, Cebuano, Bikol, or Hiligaynon, they remain obscure elsewhere
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embraced by the Filipinos without hesitations. Even I, I came to a point that I do not like and patronize OPMs and local films--- why? I believe that the language used is so “cheap”. This should not be! These foreign influences are rampant and contagious! Rizal is right in writing a poem that encourages us to enrich and love our own dialect, our own language. In the poem he cited, “Ang hindi marunong magmahal sa sariling wika, mas higit pa sa hayop at malansang isda…” I am one of those Filipino who is obviously
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We, the FEU Diliman students, were given a chance to watch the musical stage play #Popular (Paano Kung Pinoy si Kiko?) written and directed by Vince Tañada. It tells the story about on how Pope Francis inspired Filipino heroes of the modern times. It started off with five Filipinos asking the question “Paano kung Pinoy si Kiko?” First was Joey Velasco who was a very brilliant painter well-known for his painting Table of Hope (Hapag ng Pag-asa) which portrayed Jesus Christ fraternizing with street
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ENG 1 1AD-7 Ms. Claustro Filipinos have so much slang words or colloquial terms or sometimes we call it “salitang kalye”. It may be said and understood by many especially the teenagers because most of it started on the social networking sites or through text messaging or from the local TV shows. I honestly like these colloquial words because it shows how Filipino people are so creative in forming such new words that only the Filipinos understand. An example would be the phrase “Rak
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