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https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/in-depth/reasons-philippines-2025-pisa-preparation-flawed/

The piece tackles our government’s apparent fixation on PISA results, overlooking the fact that the education system is about more than just PISA scores. @here

Instead of taking and applying the correct critiques of the education system that PISA’s assessors gave after the Philippines’ performance over multiple tests, DepEd just doubles down on broken curricula conducted in a foreign language, English. Literally the opposite of all recommendations by education experts associated with PISA.

PISA shows where a country is lacking in literacy, be it literature, math, or science literacy. It is meant to show a country a pathway to improvement. It is not a "normal" test and cramming will not make up for years of students being mis-educated by bad teachers, poor curriculua, underfunded and understaffed schools, and bad language policy. These are systemic issues that need to be addressed and a cram session will not address them.

Trying to teach students math and science in English instead of regional languages or at least in Tagalog is a fool's errand that flies in the face of all linguistic science. You must teach complex topics in native languages or at least proximal languages. That is just how humans' brains work. If you do not, the brain needs to do twice the work by trying to first understand what is actually happening in English, then converting that to the more normalized conceptual framework. THEN decoding the actual educational concept.

Virtually every country on the planet knows this (or is at least logical about it in that OF COURSE education comes easier in my own language!), thus teaches in native or related languages. Except the Philippines because the Philippines has an inferiority complex about English. It's absurd. PISA has recommended this change over and over. And ignored until now.

Ms. Princess Mae De Leon expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the faculty, staff, and student volunteers of the Humanities and Social Sciences Cluster at the University of Perpetual Help Molino Campus for their support as she completed the ALS program through the ALTAS Project, led by Dr. John Robby Robiños, LPT. She and her daughter are proud members of Batch 3, which held its completion rites on April 11, 2025.

Despite the challenges, Ms. De Leon managed to pursue her studies while working at a food stall. Her dedication and perseverance serve as an inspiration to many.

via | John Gabriel Corpuz, CommSoc Media

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