INSTEAD of unceasing assaults on the Constitution, the two chambers of Congress should instead pass with urgency something along the lines of an Open-Ended Education Funding Act. This means allocating 10 percent of the yearly GDP to education until such time that our 10- and 15-year-olds (the cohorts in the Timss and PISA evaluations, respectively) can read and understand age-appropriate text and solve math problems and science lessons with relative ease. Until our learning poverty rate matches that of Singapore, instead of the globally embarrassing 91 percent. Until, the foundation for a world-class education shall have been built from the bottom up.
Rahul Gandhi criticized the exclusion of Dalits, backward classes, and the President from the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya, calling it an insult. He accused PM Modi of prioritizing industrialists over the majority of the population and neglecting Dalits, backward classes, and tribals. Gandhi also criticized the government's handling of the economy, employment, and women's safety, and accused Modi of using agencies like the ED and CBI to threaten opposition parties.
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A FAIR and unbiased view of the Philippine Constitution will always take note of its amazing prescience. In 1987, the 50 framers, with zero foresight that a 'knowledge economy' was to be the global order a decade hence, along with its disruptive, life-changing technologies, placed 'education' as the priority agenda of the state. It was the only state mandate enshrined and given extraordinary weight.
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SCHOLARS, politicians, media commentators and just plain policy kibitzers all wail about the backward nature of our agricultural sector. Recently, opinion pieces from highly respected economists like Gerardo Sicat and Cielito Habito stressed the need of improving the performance of our agriculture sector if the economy is to attain high and sustained growth, and successfully address the widespread malnutrition among our people, particularly kids.