SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS DOUBLY-CHALLENGED THIS SCHOOL OPENING

How does a special education (SPED) school deliver education services using distance education?  With distance education the prescribed norm by the Department of Education for schools this school opening (2020), special education schools will be doubly-challenged:  Working with children with disabilities in a completely new school environment which is not face-to-face. Children with disabilities (CWD)

HOW HAVE OUR ASEAN NEIGHBORS RE-OPENED THEIR SCHOOLS IN THIS PANDEMIC?

Juan Miguel Luz                                                                                                                          Analysis Published in Rappler, August 6, 2020 The Philippines is the last of the ASEAN countries to re-open its basic education schools.  This reflects both extraordinary caution on the part of the national leadership but also indecision on their part.  Being slow to move, however, does have its advantages.  It

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Atul Gawande, “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”.  Picador, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2014. “Modern scientific capability has profoundly altered the course of human life. People live longer and better than at any other time in history. But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying

HOW READY ARE OUR SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOL OPENING? THREE CASES

Juan Miguel Luz                                                                                                                                    Analysis Published by Rappler, August 1, 2020 As we approach school opening 2020, what is on everybody’s mind is how distance learning will be carried out in fact.  Distance learning is completely new to all but a handful of private schools already attuned to online learning using the internet.  Most schools and