Miseducation: The Failed System of Philippine Education is the Year One Report of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), which Republic Act No. 11899 created to assess Philippine education and recommend reforms. The Commission published it in 2024, on its publications page, as a 398-page PDF. The Download button opens the Commission’s own copy. Its copyright page lets readers quote or reproduce parts of it “for literary or educational research, and for information and advocacy, provided that appropriate citation is made”, but not reproduce or reprint it for commercial purposes.

What the report does

The report diagnoses. Its introduction says, “If there is anything this report aims to impart on its readers, it is this: There is an education crisis in the country” (p. l). The Commission set 28 priority areas, organized by its standing committees, and focused on 12 of them in its first year (p. lviii). Each chapter gives findings and recommendations by priority area and closes with next steps for Year 2.

What is inside

  1. The preface, executive summary and the Year 1 recommendations.
  2. Early childhood care and development: nutrition and feeding, supply-side factors, and the governance and financing of ECCD.
  3. Basic education: learning resources, the measurement of learning outcomes, and curriculum and instruction.
  4. Higher education: access to quality education and quality assurance.
  5. Teacher education: the alignment of CHED, the PRC and DepEd, and in-service training and development, including teacher welfare, under the heading “Let Teachers Teach: Unburdening the Classroom Teacher”.
  6. Technical and vocational education and training: industry involvement and the quality of TVET.
  7. Governance and finance: seamless delivery of education, performance management and accountability, financing, and decentralization.
  8. The conclusion and annexes, among them an inventory of expenditures charged against the Special Education Fund.

Is it still current?

Partly. As of November 8, 2026, it is the first of EDCOM II’s three reports. The Year Two Report (2025) and the Final Report (2026) updated many of its findings, and the Final Report says it corrects outdated data (p. 54). Some of its numbers changed in the later reports and some were carried forward; EDCOM II’s three reports compared traces sixteen headline numbers through the three reports.

Why it matters for aspiring school heads

In the Philippine Professional Standards for School Heads (PPSSH, DO 024, s. 2020), reading these reports serves Domain 1, Leading Strategically: strand 1.4 (research and innovation), whose first indicator asks school heads to identify relevant research findings from reliable sources, and strand 1.3 (policy implementation and review). Their findings on learning outcomes also bear on Domain 3, strand 3.4 (learner achievement and other performance indicators).

The report sets out the evidence behind many of the laws, budgets and agency policies that followed it. What EDCOM II achieved, 2023-2025 lists them, and the Final Report guide reads the Commission’s last report for school heads.