Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal congress on the Esperanto language, international congresses on advancing drawing and art teaching, historical sciences, orientalists, the blind, moral education, domestic economy and home industry instruction, the Peninsular War, and the Pan-American scientific congress. Education commissions in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, and North Dakota are covered. The work of several education boards and associations are summarized. Additional current topics covered are teachers' colleges, agriculture and mechanic arts teacher training, graduate schools, establishing a National University of the United States, industrial education, journalism courses, coeducation in the U.S. and foreign countries, school hygiene, compulsory attendance and child labor laws, public school fraternities, student advisors, teacher pension funds, school-official changes, and short miscellaneous news. Chapter II covers education-related legislation considered in the first session of the 69th Congress by agency, proposed legislation, and state public-education legislation from October 1, 1906, to October 1, 1907. Chapter III and Chapter IV provide data and discussion on education across sectors in Porto Rico [sic] and in the Philippines, respectively. Chapter V reviews modern higher education in Spanish-American countries. Chapter VI addresses British and Irish education in 1907-08, including education bills before Parliament, education across sectors, and education in London. Chapter VII provides data and discussion on French education across sectors as well as the Musée Pédagogique. Chapter VIII covers education in Central Europe, including Prussian school statistics, feeding German school children, suicide among German school children, Prussian teachers' salaries, Saxon normal school course, Prussian "middle schools," German-American secondary-school teacher exchange, German agricultural education, German girls' education, Prussian trade and vocational schools, and the Swiss school system. Chapter IX addresses current topics in foreign education, including German universities and government employment, Chinese education progress, reorganization of Prussian girl's schools, Belgian education administration, and Italian education. Chapter X lists foreign institutions of higher education in 1907. Chapter XI provides an educational directory of chief state school officers; city superintendents; presidents of men's colleges, coeducational liberal arts colleges, and technology schools; women's college presidents; university and college pedagogy professors and department heads; and public and private normal school principals. [For Volume 2, see ED620664.]