The Commissioner of Education reviews the work of the office, and provides discussion and data, with some diagrams on the following topics: six-year summary of institutions, instructors, and students; enrollment and attendance of the school-age population; public school teacher employment and salaries; per-capita expenditures on ungraded schools by states and territories; the teaching force; school inspection and examination; a summary of state and territorial education condition; education of the colored race; the Peabody fund; city schools; superintendence; primary grades; grammar grades in Southern cities; authors' days in schools and color blindness; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; preparatory schools; institutions for the superior instruction of women; women's admission to English universities; universities and colleges; schools of science; European agricultural education; schools of theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; public libraries; nurse-training schools; institutions for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; schools for feeble-minded youth; reform schools; homes and asylums for orphan or dependent children; infant asylums and industrial schools; education benefactions; education publications; patentees for school furniture and equipment; foreign education; special schools; drawing and sewing in public schools; needlework in German elementary schools; public-school boys' manual training; French school manual training; industrial schools; army post schools; summer schools; education and forestry; organized charities; school committee and school board power; taxation for school purposes; territorial school supervision; and trespasses upon territorial public school lands. The Commissioner offers recommendations. Abstracted school officer reports and other information from states, territories, and cities are provided. Educational associations are listed. Detailed statistical tables are given for most topics above, as well as schools of dentistry and pharmacy, and entrance examinations for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies. [Part 2 is not available.]