The Department of Education (DepEd) on Sunday underscored the need to develop learners’ literacy skills as early as kindergarten in a bid to address the alarming state of functional illiteracy among ...

There are over 18 million junior high school graduates who are considered “functional illiterate” or those who have problems in comprehension and understanding. This was revealed during the Senate ...

Why is it so hard to make healthy choices? Because most people aren’t health literate. In a country awash in health advice, the problem isn’t access to information — it’s the ability to make sense of ...