This is Volume 2 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98, containing Parts II and III. Part II contains the chapters: (1) Child Study in the United States; (2) Report of the Committee of Twelve of the Modern Language Association of America; (3) University Types and Ideals; (4) State Supervision of Degree-Conferring Institutions; (5) Report on School Statistics, made by a Committee of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association; (6) Medical Inspection of Schools; (7) Bible Study in American Colleges; (8) The Bible in the Public Schools and State Universities; (9) Methods of Instruction in Agriculture; (10) Consular Reports; (11) Current Questions; (12) Miscellaneous Educational Topics; (13) The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Held in Omaha, Nebr., 1898; (14) List of Foreign Universities and Other Institutions of Higher Education; (15) Report on Education in Alaska; and (16) Eighth Annual Report of the Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska. Part III contains the chapters: (1) Institutions for Higher Education; (2) Professional Schools; (3) Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges; (4) Statistics of Normal Schools; (5) Statistics of Secondary Schools; (6) City School Systems; (7) Manual and Industrial Training; (8) Commercial Education; (9) Education of the Colored Race; (10) Schools for the Defective Classes; (11) Reform Schools; (12) Public and Private Kindergartens; (13) Necrology of 1897; and (14) Statistics of Elementary Education in Foreign Countries. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education of the Year 1897-98. Volume 1. Containing Part I," see ED622137.]