Department of Education: It’s War Against Jejemons
So the DepEd declares the “Jejemon subculture” as bad for the kids’ education.
The Sun Star reports:
THE Department of Education (DepEd) has declared an “all-out-war” against the emerging “Jejemon” subculture, saying that it will degrade the standards of the country’s education...
Source: Technograph
Interpreting 101: To mouth or not to mouth?
Seated from Left: ASP Head Nilo Sorongon, MCCID’s Jerome Marzan, Me, Akap Pinoy’s Daylin Taleon, Liliane Philippines’ Tess Dela Cruz, NCDA Director Geraldine Ruiz and Nova Foundation’s Noli Agcaoili
Two Saturdays ago, I was privileged to be invited in a workshop on disability in the Philippines sponsored…
Source: Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Person
The Poverty of Learning
I deplore the fact that among an unwieldy stream of textbooks coming out of the publishing houses every year, many escape critical peer reviews that should be the requirement of every manuscript prior to its entrance to the press. If ever they all did then I am very bewildered at the quality of the reviewers as a large number of Filipino-authored textbooks reaching public and private libraries and bookstores variably contain errors in some or in many parts. In institutions where professors and other members of the faculty are not critical to details (owing to their bookishness) these errors persist and create a well of misinformation for the students and the public, who are ought to carry the erroneous brand of knowledge to their children or their students and their graves.
The Poverty of Learning
I deplore the fact that among an unwieldy stream of textbooks coming out of the publishing houses every year, many escape critical peer reviews that should be the requirement of every manuscript prior to its entrance to the press. If ever they all did then I am very bewildered at the quality of...
Source: The Guild-Master's Desk
