when the Philippine government introduced the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education program, which required public schools to teach kindergarten through Grade 3 students in a native language ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) on Sunday underscored the need to develop learners’ literacy skills as early as ...

Kindergarten ... The Philippines also has a perennial classroom shortage, with 18,000 more needed in the capital alone. Manila's public schools do two shifts per day, with about 50 students ...