Malacanang, DepEd, and DOF successfully bullied the World Bank into taking down from its website the report on our failing education sector and apologizing. DepEd knows there is a serious problem because it has been doing standardized tests called national achievement tests almost every year in basic education, public and private. I understand that researchers from the think tank have been begging DepEd for test data. The excuse of DepEd for not sharing test data is the privacy law. The problem with DepEd is that it is a big lumbering bureaucracy that seems to have forgotten its mission of educating our children.

Source: Philippine Star July 11, 2021 16:03 UTC