In this report, the Commissioner of Education presents a general review of the U.S. educational condition, discusses the work of the Commissioner's office, and offers summaries of education statistics, using diagrams. Also provided are a summary of educational condition in the states and territories and comparative statistics and remarks on Southern education. Additionally, the report includes discussion, summary data, and diagrams on the following topics: yellow fever and the schools; education of Southern whites; the Peabody fund; supervising school officers; public school textbooks and curricula; rural students; curricula for ungraded schools; educational beginnings; city school statistics; special schools; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; preparatory schools; schools for the superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; classical and scientific instruction; schools of science, theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; libraries; schools for the feeble-minded; institutions for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; reform schools; special training in schoolships; orphan asylums, soldiers' orphans' homes, infant asylums, industrial schools, and miscellaneous charities; education benefactions; educational publications; patentees for school furniture and apparatus; foreign education; Dr. David Murray and Japanese education; U.S. education at the Paris Exposition; special instruction; cookery schools; nurses' training schools; industrial training; drawing in the Boston public schools; girls' sewing instruction; industrial instruction for the dependent classes; and foreign apprentice schools. The Commissioner then makes recommendations and concluding remarks. Abstracted state, territorial, and city school officer reports with additional information are provided. Discussion of educational associations and education in Sunday schools is also included. Detailed statistical tables cover most topics above as well as admissions examinations for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies. [Part 2 is not available.]