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A staggering number of Filipino students in Grades 1 to 3 are struggling to read, with only 15 percent reaching grade-level proficiency, highlighting the urgent need for rapid measures—such as more reading materials, teacher capacity building, and parental engagement—to address the growing...

Amid growing concerns over declining literacy rates and post-pandemic learning recovery, education advocates on Friday, May 30, called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to expand its reading intervention programs to better support struggling and transitioning readers across all grade levels....