After an introduction by the Commissioner of Education, chapters I and II of volume 1 cover reports from the Mosely Educational Commission to the United States. Chapter III addresses proceedings instituted to execute the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Subsequent chapters cover French education, agriculture teaching in French and Belgian schools, businessmen's higher education in the United States and Germany, and Liberian education. Chapter VIII covers proceedings from the August 1905 International Congress for the Reproduction of Manuscripts, Coins and Seals in Liège, Belgium. Chapter IX presents New York State Education Commissioner Andrew S. Draper's address on the New York secondary school system given at the December 1904 joint meeting of the Associated Academic Principals, the Council of Grammar School Principals, the Science Teachers' Association, the Training Teachers' Conference, and the Drawing Teachers' Club of the State of New York. Chapter X features "Art Education an Important Factor in Industrial Development," an essay by Halsey Cooley Ives, director of the St. Louis School and Museum of Arts, and director of the departments of art at the Universal Expositions held in 1903 at Chicago and in 1904 at St. Louis. Chapter XI provides discussion and data on current topics: compulsory attendance and child labor laws, school consolidation and pupil transportation, free textbooks and supplies, public-school temperance instruction, North American Sunday schools, education periodicals, public-school religious exercises, city public-school corporal punishment, vaccination requirements, city teachers' length of service, German teachers' pensions, European higher commercial education, city superintendents' and teachers' salaries, and foreign countries' education statistics. Chapter XII covers miscellaneous educational topics: forestry instruction; American agricultural education and research, by A. C. True, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture experiment stations; and Chinese education reform progress, by E.T. Williams, Chinese secretary of the American legation at Peking. Chapters XIII and XIV report on Alaskan education and the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, respectively. Chapter XV covers inauguration of the American school system in Porto Rico from the beginning of American occupation to the present. Chapter XVI covers education in the Philippines. Subsequent chapters include an education directory of chief state school officers, city school superintendents, presidents of men's and coeducational liberal arts colleges, women's college presidents, technology schools, university and college pedagogy professors and department heads, and principals of normal schools; state school system statistics; city school system statistics, and discussion and data concerning universities, colleges, and technological schools. [For Volume 2, see ED620503.]