This is the 1886-1887 report of the Commissioner of Education. It begins with the Commissioner's statement of the work of the Office. Topics of the report include: (1) Statistics of State Common-School Systems; (2) Digests of State School Reports; (3) Discussions of Educational Questions by State Superintendents and Others; (4) City Schools Systems; (5) Training of Teachers; (6) Kindergartens; (7) Secondary Instruction; (8) Superior Instruction (Institutions for the Superior Instruction for Women, Universities and Colleges, and Schools of Science); (9) Professional Instruction (Schools of Theology, Schools of Law, and Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy); (10) Degrees Conferred; (11) Manual and Industrial Training (Manual Training and Industrial Departments and Manual Training and Trade Schools); (12) Business Colleges -- Nurses' Training Schools; (13) Education of Special Classes (Education of the Deaf, Education of the Blind, Education of the Feeble-Minded, Education of Juvenile Delinquents, Education of Indians, and Education of the Colored Race); (14) Gifts and Bequests to Education; (15) Obituary List of Notable Educators; (16) Educational Associations and Conventions; (17) Libraries in the United States; (18) Education Periodicals; (19) Education in Foreign Countries; (20) Papers on Educational Subjects; and (21) Index to the Publications of the Bureau of Education.