The Department of Education’s (DepEd) Bureau of Learning Resources (BLR) conducted three workshops involving academicians and validators to validate comments and recommendations from the regions regarding learning resources and textbooks for Kindergarten to Grade 10. This is to continuously address the persistent problem of errors in textbooks.
The Validated findings, description of errors found, and recommendations on how to correct will comprise the “notes of teachers” that the Department shall issue through a memorandum to the regions.
DepEd also seeks to expand its authority in view of the R.A. 8047, which lodged the mandate to write and print textbooks with private publishers, and confined DepEd’s mandate to “preparing the minimum learning competencies, and/or prototypes and other specifications for books and/or manuscripts called for; testing, evaluating, selecting, and approving the manuscripts or books to be submitted by the publishers for multiple adoptions.”
Even as the Department recognizes the policy of promoting competition in offering this exercise to the private sector, it also expresses concern that accountability is dispersed among different stakeholders.
The Department also assures its stakeholders that its direction remains toward the development and implementation of reforms in the education sector.
Guided by the 10-Point Agenda of Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones, the said department said they are steadfast in its commitment to address the challenges – persistent or otherwise – toward the delivery of quality basic education.
