{"id":210544,"date":"2024-02-01T07:42:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=210544"},"modified":"2024-02-01T08:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:09:47","slug":"hoy-public-school-teachers-are-a-big-part-of-the-poor-scores-of-dominican-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/01\/hoy-public-school-teachers-are-a-big-part-of-the-poor-scores-of-dominican-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoy: Public school teachers are a big part of the poor scores of Dominican students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ADP.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123235\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ADP.png 307w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ADP-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An editorial in Hoy newspaper highlights how the Dominican Association of Public School Teachers is a setback for quality education in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The editorial writer writes that efforts to compensate the low levels of Dominican public school teachers with considerable investments in training are not producing the desired results. The editorial writer also focuses on the frequent absences of teachers to the detriment of thousands of low-income school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The editorialist criticizes that classroom time is being used to hold assemblies of public teachers that seek new financial gains and perks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, PISA tests continue to rank the Dominican Republic as one of the countries with the lowest achievement in the public school system, Hoy stresses in the editorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTen years of increasing spending on education to 4% of the National Budget shows a deplorable balance that calls on authorities, educators and parents to concentrate efforts so that there are better schools that would only be possible with well-trained, well-paid teachers and of absolute commitment to society,\u201d writes Hoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/las-prioridades-de-adp-que-van-contrala-conquista-del-4\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 February 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editorial in Hoy newspaper highlights how the Dominican Association of Public School Teachers is a setback for quality education in the Dominican Republic. The editorial writer writes that efforts to compensate the low levels of Dominican public school teachers with considerable investments in training are not producing the desired results. The editorial writer also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/01\/hoy-public-school-teachers-are-a-big-part-of-the-poor-scores-of-dominican-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210598,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210544\/revisions\/210598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}