Author: attysy

LATEST assessment tests on public schoolchildren show an ever so small improvement in English proficiency. Is it finally the light at the end of the tunnel—a new generation of Filipinos who speak real English and not some bastardized form? Filipinos who know proper grammar like we do? Filipinos who can express ideas like Claro M. [...]

I CONTINUE to follow intently the Obama-Clinton wars. Aside from contentious issues of race and gender, the heart of the matter, is the clash between believing in the dream or vision that Obama is painting versus the brass tacks reality that Clinton is proving. The audacity of hope, of youth versus the certainty of experience [...]

It is not another acronym for a scandal in the wings. It is not a feel-good message two weeks after Valentine’s Day. It is simply love, or rather the lack of it, that is the root cause of the country’s instability and conflicts.

Apolinario Mabini once said, “You always look upon your countryman as something more than a neighbor. See in him the friend, the brother, or at the very least, the companion to whom you are bound by a single fate, by the same joys and sorrows, and by common aspirations and interests. As long as the [...]

OUR basic education system run by the Department of Education (DepEd) caters to over 20 million learners, housed in over 45,000 schools and community centers and supported by over 513,000 teachers and staff. This opening line is mind-boggling, to say the least. The student number alone is more than the national populations of about 100 [...]