The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are increasing equal opportunity, including desegregation assistance, civil rights advisory services, education of disadvantaged children, grants to local education agencies, migrant children, neglected and delinquent children, handicapped children, bilingual education, Indian education, and postsecondary student financial Aid; improved educational quality, including the Right to Read program, drug education, and environmental education; education professions development, including Teacher Corps; language training and area studies; educational TV programming support; library programs; postsecondary education, including land-grant colleges and universities, higher education construction, state postsecondary planning commissions, and the veterans' cost-of-instruction programs; ethnic heritage studies; educational broadcasting facilities; Cuban-refugee loans; federal impact aid; library programs; vocational education; language training and area studies; interagency-cooperation programs, including those concerning the U.S. Bicentennial observance, parenthood education, "cell block" colleges, the Model Cities program, a study on the Community College of Micronesia on the Pacific island of Panopay, the Kennedy Center arts "Showcase" productions, and energy conservation; and advisory committees and councils. Appendices cover selected education statistics, Office of Education funding by state, administration of Public Laws 81-815 and 81-874 for FY74 [in a separate volume], and advisory councils' and committees' functions, meeting dates, and membership.