DepEd to implement 'Catch up Friday' program in 2024

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00:00 Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte announced during the celebration of

00:04 National Reading Month that "Catch-Up Friday" will start in January 2024 to address the

00:10 current situation of the students when it comes to their reading skills.

00:15 According to a 2018 study released by the Program for International Student Assessment

00:20 or PISA, Filipino students have the lowest reading proficiency.

00:25 VP Sara Duterte said the Education Department is working on creating a policy for Catch-Up

00:30 Friday that is set to be released next month.

00:33 The students are to focus on their reading skills as well as other subjects like values,

00:38 health and peace education every Friday starting January 12, 2024.

00:44 All other subjects will be adjusted in the curriculum and teaching strand of the students.

00:49 "This is our strategy in pursuing our learning recovery program because we saw that we were

00:56 doing everything before but the performance of our learners, particularly in international

01:03 assessments, is still not improving.

01:06 We see that the quality of education is not really good.

01:13 We should really start teaching the children to read.

01:20 We have a lot of non-readers and slow readers so they all need to be given a day when they

01:29 have nothing to do but practice and learn how to read.

01:35 Even those who are already good at reading should be leveled up."