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MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker has urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to focus on addressing reading comprehension problems encountered by students as old as those in Grade 11, instead of adopting new policies and listening to the different suggestions of stakeholders.
On Thursday, after the hearing of the House of Representatives’ committee on basic education, Pasig Rep. Roman Romulo said that DepEd might have to go back to the basics and solve the reading comprehension woes of students first.
Romulo said this after the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) raised a question during the hearing as to how DepEd intends to address the fact that 87 percent of Grade 11 students are non-independent readers, or readers who eventually find difficulty explaining what they just read.
“DepEd should decide how to resolve this problem […] maybe this should be the priority first: reading, reading, reading, reading comprehension, mathematics,” Romulo said in Filipino.
