MANILA, Philippines — Pressure built up on Thursday (July 8) for World Bank to publicly apologize for its synthesis report on the three latest global assessments which showed the Philippine educational system lagging behind with President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief economic manager backing up Education Secretary Leonor Briones’ call.
By Thursday afternoon, the World Bank report, titled “Improving student learning outcomes and wellbeing in the Philippines: What are international assessments telling us?” which the Washington-based multilateral lender published on June 21, was already taken down from its website. The accompanying presentation for the report was also gone, after …
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