With schools recently opened, pupils can count on one perennial topic for their first English composition of the new academic year: “What did you do last summer?” I always took this question to mean,...
The results of the Manila Science Admission Test (MSAT) 2015 are out! I had accompanied a former office colleague to the Manila Science High School in Taft Avenue, Manila, to see if her niece...
Don’t believe everything you read, not even when it comes from a student textbook. A friend recently forwarded to me a Facebook post calling out the Department of Education (DepEd) for an apparent Creationist...
Reading aloud helped tremendously when I was teaching my boy how to read. I would sit him on my lap and read to him, while I moved my index finger under each spoken word....
My son saw his first dragon dance and lion dance in 2009 during Chinese New Year festivities hosted by a supermarket in Makati City. It was only my second time to see these dances...
With so many teaching and learning resources available online, it’s easy to overlook the materials that are right within our own “cyber backyard.” Take, for instance, The Department of Education (DepED) Learning Resources Management...
The Department of Education (DepED) will conduct an early registration for the 2015-2015 school year in all public elementary and high schools nationwide from January 24 to February 27, 2015. The early registration is...
My son, Motito, suffers from a bad case of chicken-scratch handwriting. His spelling is spot-on, but many of his letters are poorly formed, words are unevenly sized and run too close together, lines are...
In the groundbreaking 1967 film “The Graduate,” newly minted college graduate Benjamin Braddock is unsure about what to do with his life. During a homecoming party hosted for him by his parents, Braddock receives...
I nearly got lost when my mother took me to Luneta to hear Pope John Paul II say Mass on February 1981. I joined the unprecedented crowd that thronged the same venue to witness...
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