The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are a progress report by the Commissioner of Education; Office of Education management; the career education in educational reform; higher education, including student financial aid and the Talent Search program; international education cooperation and intercultural understanding, including teacher exchange and cooperative research; increasing the nation's manpower pool of trained specialists in languages and cultures of countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and the USSR; the Teacher Corps; helping the ex-GI, including the Special Veterans Talent Search/Upward Bound program, and enlisting veterans into teacher-training programs; school finance, including work of the President's Commission on School Finance, the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and the Office of Education Task Force; help for the disadvantaged child; the schools and the handicapped; the Right to Read program; gaps in the teacher surplus; aiding school desegregation, including the Emergency School Assistance Program; migrant children; the multicultural classroom, including the Bilingual Education Act; educational technology; drug abuse, including the Help Communities Help Themselves program; and advisory committees and councils.