The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics discussed are education failings, including inadequate budges and ineffective courses, teaching, and curricula; evidence of success; compensatory education; education finance; dropout prevention; minority education, including bilingual education, migrant education, and Indian education; titles of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); postsecondary education, including student financial aid, non-financial assistance programs, black colleges, and community colleges; career education, including employer- and home-based models; state initiatives; early childhood education, education for the handicapped; education innovation; the Right to Read program; drug-abuse education; environmental education; arts and humanities programs in schools; gifted and talented programs; education research and dissemination; Office of Education management; and advisory councils and committees.