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 education-equalization programs, including desegregation assistance, civil rights advisory services, education of disadvantaged children, grants to local education agencies, migrant children, neglected and delinquent children, handicapped children's education, bilingual education, Indian education, postsecondary student financial Aid, adult education; comprehensive employment and training, Talent Search, Upward Bound, and equal opportunity centers; improved educational quality, including the Right to Read program, alcohol and drug abuse education, environmental education, Teacher Corps, language training and area studies, library programs, supplementary educational centers and services, and programs in metric education, community education, arts in education, career education, consumers' education, women's educational equity, educational television and radio programming, and postsecondary student financial aid; postsecondary and vocational education, including land-grant colleges and universities, higher-education construction, state postsecondary education commissions, the veterans' cost-of-instruction programs, special-needs student programs, consumer and homemaking education, cooperative education, and work-study programs; programs to improve the life of the nation, including university-community services, ethnic heritage studies, educational broadcasting facilities, personnel development, federal impact aid, librarian-training programs, library-construction programs, and family life and sex education; international exchanges, comparative-education activities and publications; and Office of Education major publications. and advisory committees and councils. Appendices cover selected education statistics, Office of Education funding by state, administration of Public Laws 81-815 and 81-874 for FY77 [in a separate volume], and advisory councils' and committees' functions, meeting dates, and membership.