Nowadays, with the advent of computer aid instruction (CAI), computer access programs, distance learning and modular instructions, it becomes increasingly apparent that our students can no longer be taught all they want to learn within the limits of the classroom. Faced with these challenges and technological advancement in education, we can not help but shift …
The phenomenal and alarming increase in the number of street children in the Metro Manila area and recently in highly urbanized areas and the planting trees seem to share a common Filipino failing. Every year thousands of trees are planted all over the Philippines, many sponsored by well-meaning public officials and organizations with great publicity, …
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Drug abuse at schools, like a gigantic malevolent octopus, has gained a stranglehold on thousands of addicts and wrought havoc in their lives and those of their families. Drug abuse must be everybody’s concern. It outlines a series of responsibilities for four groups: parents, schools, students and communities. Parents are urged to teach standards through …
Getting Our Priorities Right on Computers In our desire to improve the quality of Education in the Philippines, our top priority for reform and change, we sometimes look on computers as a panacea or universal remedy for the ills of Philippine education. It is felt in some quarters that if we put our children in …
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Politics of patronage is not only practiced by politicians in the Philippine educational system. School administrators practice it also. It comes in the form of giving favors to favored employees at the expenses of those who are not within the good graces of their school administrators. It is this kind of patronage that breeds corruption, …
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