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Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is urging the government to create learning recovery initiatives that will lessen the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the protracted absence of in-person instruction ahead of the observance of the International Day of Education on January 24.

While the return of five full days of in-person instruction is an important step toward the basic education sector returning to normalcy, Gatchalian warned that if learning loss is not addressed, the economic wounds will only become worse.

The learning adjusted years of schooling (LAYS), according to the World Bank’s simulation analysis of learning losses, will drop from 7.5 years to roughly six years. This indicates that due to the epidemic, 12 years of basic education will only be comparable to about 6 years of the actual study.

According to updated projections from the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the suspension of in-person classes will cost the Philippine economy PHP10.1 trillion over the following 40 years.

Gatchalian has proposed Senate Bill No. 1604, which outlines the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) Program, as a nationwide learning intervention to mitigate the pandemic’s consequences.

This will be supported by ideas like well-organized tutorial sessions, thoughtful determination and assessment of learners, and well-designed learning remediation plans and resources, among others.

Prioritizing literacy and numeracy, the ARAL Program will concentrate on the fundamentals of language and mathematics for grades 1 through 10, and science for grades 3 through 10.

The curriculum also attempts to improve kindergarten students’ literacy and numeracy abilities.

“Even though taking face-to-face classes is a significant step toward returning our education sector to normalcy, we still need to set up programs to deal with the more severe damage caused by the disruption, as well as in the classroom and in the workplace,” the statement reads.

According to World Bank estimates, the Philippines had a 90.9 percent rate of learning poverty as of June 2022.

The proportion of 10-year-old children who are illiterate is known as learning poverty.

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