In this report, the Commissioner of Education offers discussion and statistical summaries on: general educational condition; conflict of capital and labor; the work of his office; school and college catalogues; state and territorial education condition; schools for the colored race; township school systems; free textbooks; education supervision; city education; public school hygiene; education vs. police; janitors' wages; normal schools; pedagogic professorships; business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; the high school question; secondary instruction abroad; foreign secondary instruction; preparatory schools; colleges for women; universities and colleges; condition of superior instruction; college student health; vacation schools; schools of science, theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; public libraries, including early American libraries; the Library of Congress; the Office of the Commissioner library; schools for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; educational benefactions; schools for the feeble minded; patentees for school-furniture improvements; foreign education; art education; orphan asylums; soldiers' orphan homes; infant asylums; industrial schools; miscellaneous charities; reform schools; and crime and education; and makes recommendations and a conclusion. Abstracted official reports from state, territorial, and city school officers are provided along with other information. Educational conventions and associations are noted. Detailed statistical tables the topics above are provided. [Part 2 is not available.]