The Commissioner of Education presents an education-progress review, and discusses compulsory education; national education aid; work of the commissioner's office; education statistical summaries; nurse-training schools; states' education duties; results of five years' compulsory education in Great Britain; industrial day schools; the Boston Whittling School; French compulsory education; prevention of cruelty to children; state laws concerning children; English reformatories; foreign education; education at the U.S. Centennial Exhibition; and notable education visits. The commissioner also offers recommendations and a conclusion. The report provides abstracted school officers' reports from the states, territories, with other information, as well as abstracts on education conventions and associations. Special articles cover the study of Anglo-Saxon, Greek pronunciation in the U.S., and Latin pronunciation. Statistical tables cover state and territorial school systems; school systems of cities with populations upwards of 7,500; normal schools, commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary institutions; preparatory schools; institutions for superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; schools of science, theology, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; admissions examinations for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies; degrees conferred; public libraries with upwards of 300 volumes; museums; institutions for the deaf and dumb and for the blind; orphan asylums; miscellaneous charities and industrial schools; reform schools; schools and asylums for feeble-minded children; education benefactions; education and historical publications; and patentees for improvements in school furniture and apparatus.