Chapter XXI of volume 2 covers St. Louis Exposition presentations by U.S. colleges and universities, while Chapter XXII includes foreign countries' presentations. Subsequent chapters provide discussion and statistics on length of teachers' service; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional education; normal schools; secondary schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; nursing schools; schools for the colored race; reform schools; schools for the defective classes, including the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded; and Alaskan education. Chapter XXXVII current topics include compulsory attendance and child-labor laws, school consolidation and pupil transportation, free textbooks and supplies, public school temperance instruction, teachers' pensions, corporal punishment, coeducation, women in school administration, European higher commercial education, U.S. city school boards' legal status, school children's vaccination requirements in certain U.S. cities, 1903-04 school and college enrollment, U.S. teachers in 1903-04, denominational religious schools across education sectors including orphan asylums, North American Sunday schools, U.S. social settlements, the Carnegie Institution, foreign students in German institutions of higher education, Nobel prizes for scientific and benevolent discoveries, Cuban education, attendance at Central European seats of higher learning, foreign countries' elementary education, Argentine Republic regulations for U.S. professional school graduates, education benefactions, city teachers' salaries, and 1904 foreign institutions of higher education. Chapter XXXIX miscellaneous education topics include essays on the measure of a teacher' efficiency, the college woman, old and new teaching methods, Argentine practical and industrial education, and Sir Isaac Pitman and his services to phonography. [For Volume 1, see ED620500.]