Parents for Education Foundation (PAREF) is an educational foundation established by parents that administers

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s for

basic education According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), basic education comprises the two stages primary education and lower secondary education. Universal basic education Basic education featured heavily in the 1997 ISCED ...

in the

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. It owns several single-sex

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s that are closely affiliated with

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Founded in 1976, PAREF Schools aim to provide personal integral education to their students. Its core

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rests on the principle, supported by research, that the fullness of a child's education is effectively realized through the integral formation first of the

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s, second of the

teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...

s, the two most influential teachers of children.

Member schools

PAREF presently has sixteen (16) schools:

References

External links

https://paref.edu.ph/ Educational organizations based in the Philippines Organizations established in 1975 1975 establishments in the Philippines {{Edu-org-stub