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                    [ArticleID] => 616329
                    [Title] => DepEd's doubtful innovations
                    [Summary] => 

DepEd has been reputed to be innovative in outlook and logical in its approach to problems.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135759 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1302306 [AuthorName] => Eladio Dioko [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 607831 [Title] => English Bill ni Gullas gidayeg [Summary] =>

Gihangop ni Bise Mayor Joy Augustos Young sa dakbayan sa Sugbo ang giduso nga House Bill ni Kongresista Eduardo R. Gullas sa unang distrito sa lalawigan sa Sugbo nga ipatudlo gyud ang pinulongang English sa mga tulunghaan sa nasud.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1610826 [AuthorName] => Ni Sanden J. Anadia [SectionName] => Banat Balita [SectionUrl] => balita [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 595654 [Title] => Lawmaker wants English as primary teaching language [Summary] =>

Believing that a high degree of proficiency in the English language will help Filipino graduates get jobs easily in any country, a lawmaker has filed a bill mandating its use as the primary medium of communication in schools.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-23 11:24:55 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360293 [Title] => Strengthening DepEd's English program [Summary] => The proposed law on the English language principally authored by Congressman Eduardo R. Gullas and approved recently by the House is entitled An Act to Strengthen and Enhance the Use of English as the Medium of Instruction in Philippine Schools. If passed into a law it will dismantle the 30-year bilingual program of DepEd aimed at creating a citizenry competent in the use of English and Filipino. Adopted on the basis of a mere administrative fiat, that program was a faulty measure right from the start.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135759 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1757071 [AuthorName] => STRAWS IN THE WIND By Eladio Dioko [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 338900 [Title] => Carabao English - a rejoinder [Summary] => I join the concern of The FREEMAN in its editorial two days ago on the "carabao" English of most Filipino college graduates. Quoting a report from Europe, it says that 75 percent of the almost half a million college finishers every year have dim prospects of employment mainly for lack of adequate communication skills in English.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135759 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1757071 [AuthorName] => STRAWS IN THE WIND By Eladio Dioko [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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