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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

GOVERNMENT leaders around the world recognize the importance of early education in developing their economies. In her State of the Nation Address on July 26, President Macapagal-Arroyo asked Congress "to legislate an extra year of studies not by adding a fifth year of high school but by standardizing what is taught in barangay day care centers."

Five days before, the President announced at a convention of district supervisors that the government would require children to attend kindergarten. "Half of what we've learned in life, we learned when we were six years old," she said. "According to a study, those who don't go to ...

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