MANILA, Philippines — The proficiency levels of Filipino students are possibly being underestimated if only based on the standards adopted by the Department of Education (DepEd) in its national tests.

DepEd-Cordillera director Estela L. Cariño leads other education officials in the monitoring of the implementation of the ARAL program at the Manicbel Primary School in Sal-lapadan, Abra recently.

With the Philippines’ basic literacy rate pegged at some 93 percent, it comes as a shock to learn from a recent report that the proficiency rate among Filipino learners has declined precipitously as ...

GRADE 5 students in the Philippines continue to fall behind most Southeast Asian neighbors in terms of proficiency in reading and mathematics, a learning assessment program by the United Nations ...

MANILA, Philippines — Just months after it was introduced by the Department of Education (DepEd), the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (Aral) program has been shown to significantly improve ...