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10-14-2008, 02:20 PM
Education Minister Melanio Paredes says that the Ministry of Education is starting an overhaul of public school curricula with the aim of helping students to improve their comprehension, mathematical skills and English language skills. Subjects that focus on values will be added. He called the program a "total reorientation" of the Curriculum Department that will now be headed by Dinorah de Lima. "In a short time we will be presenting the country and the world with a new educational product in the DR," he announced. Paredes is known for his excellent work at the vocational technical organization, Infotep. He said that the greatest efforts would be directed at grade schools. "The students who are graduating today are victims of a pernicious circle," he said, commenting on the deficiencies that students entering universities are experiencing. He said that the next generation that is currently in pre-school through fourth grade in elementary would stand to benefit most from the new curricula.
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