The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education in 1970. Among additional topics covered are charges of U.S. education's inefficiency, unresponsiveness, and aloofness from great societal issues; education research; the federal role in education; education and the U.S. bicentennial; Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; program priorities, administration, and organization; early childhood education; reading scores; Indian education; higher education, including student financial aid; assessment; comparability; the Right to Read program; teacher shortages in high-poverty schools; drug-abuse education; portal schools to ease the transition from teacher training to teaching; educational television; federalism and education, including Impact Aid; regionalism; federal aid to nonpublic schools; desegregation and emergency school assistance; and education advisory councils.