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Local September 13, 2021 | 2:15 pm

Lack of reading comprehension: A knowledge crisis?

Santo Domingo, DR The recent publication by the Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Development (MEPyD), to the effect that 62.3% of the Dominican population of 10-year-olds could not understand the reading of a simple text, caused great concern. It was disconcerting. It seems impossible to conceive that a new generation in the Dominica... Read more

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