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[Title] => Philippines only country where rich-poor gap in reading gains widened in PISA 2025
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[Summary] => The Philippines should consider sending its top students to study abroad as part of the government’s support for gifted learners, Education Secretary Sonny Angara said, following findings that only 1% of the country’s “best and the brightest” benefits from state support through science high schools.
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