RETHINKING EDUCATION: Upper Primary (Grades 4-6)

ESSAY 5 DEVELOPING FUNCTIONAL LITERACY AND 21ST CENTURY SKILLS Juan Miguel Luz[1] Fellow, FEU Public Policy Center In the lower primary years of Grades 1 to 3, we want our children to learn simple literacy and numeracy – the 3s of Reading, wRriting, and aRithmetic.  What do we want to develop in the upper primary