The Minister of Education, Roberto Fulcardid not deny the poor grades obtained by students in the third and sixth grades of primary school in punctuation, spelling and readabilityevaluated in the writing test of the Comparative and Explanatory Regional Study (ERCE 2019) of the Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE), belonging to the Regional Office of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).
Fulcar recognized that this weakness is a great challenge for the Dominican educational system, which is why the institution runs “several programs simultaneously to improve the reading skills of students and, above all, to promote critical reflection and understand what they read.”
This is one of the most important areas of current management, said Fulcar, who says he is “aware that if we manage to develop students early in these reading skills, this will impact educational results in the other years to come.” ”.
The study of Unesco found that Dominican schoolchildren had poor spelling and punctuation, with only 13.7% of third graders achieving a high level of readability.
Conflict with ADP
Regarding the plan of struggle in order to obtain a salary increase for the teachers of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP), led by Eduardo Hidalgo, Fulcar limited himself to responding: “I am never going to negotiate the right to education of Dominican students; Let society judge.”
