The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) annually publishes a statistical report on the status and progress of education in the United States. This pamphlet provides 14 charts that represent a small sample of the 60 indicators contained in the "Condition of Education, 1995" report. The charts present information on the following topics: (1) participation in center-based early childhood programs before kindergarten; (2) immediate transition from high school to college; (3) trends in reading proficiency of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds by race/ethnicity; (4) high school mathematics and science course-taking patterns; (5) transition from high school to work by race/ethnicity; (6) activities of 1990 2-year college students; (7) international comparisons of educational attainment; (8) welfare recipiency by educational attainment; (9) elementary and secondary school enrollment; (10) student mobility; (11) crime in schools; (12) national index of public effort to fund education; (13) teacher salaries; and (14) teacher literacy. (LMI)