This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1896-97, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner of Education's Introduction and Part I covers the topics: (1) Education in Great Britain and Ireland; (2) Education in France; (3) Education in Denmark; (4) Education in Norway; (5) Education in Central Europe; (6) Commercial Education in Europe; (7) The Teaching of Civics in Switzerland, France, and England; (8) Education in Greece; (9) Sunday Schools; (10) The Curriculum of the Land-Grant Colleges; (11) Requirements for Admission to Freshman Class in Colleges, Universities, and Schools of Technology; (12) The Legal Rights of Children; (13) Psychological Tendencies--The Study of Imitation; (14) Discussion of Educational Topics, by President Francis A. Walker, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with some Account of His Life; (15) Horace Mann and the Great Revival of the American Common School, 1830-1850; (16) Henry Barnard; (17) Report of the Committee of Twelve of Rural Schools; (18) Entrance Requirements for Engineering Colleges; (19) Early History of the Kindergarten in St. Louis, Missouri; (20) Some Recent Contributions of Biology, Sociology, and Metallurgy to the Curriculum of Colleges Endowed by the Federal Government for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts; (21) The Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, Held in Nashville, Tennessee, May 1 to October 31, 1897; and (22) Educational Directory. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1896-97. Volume 2. Containing Parts II and III," see ED622097.]