The Commissioner of Education reports on the work of the office and its publications over the year. Statistical summaries and discussion are presented on enrollment; attendance; teacher workforce and pay; school finance; state and territorial education; kindergarten; city education; education of the colored race; institutions for the superior instruction of women; secondary and preparatory education; textbooks; study courses; colleges and universities; degrees conferred; education benefactions; commercial and business colleges; professional schools; institutions for the deaf and dumb; institutions for the blind; schools for the feeble-minded; reform schools; special schools for Indians; orphan asylums; and U.S. Army post schools. The report also addresses high school discipline and truancy; the Peabody fund; preparatory courses for higher scientific study; the Round Hill School; school houses and schools maintained by private effort; admissions requirements for women's colleges; opportunities for women's higher education; college government; recent history of agricultural colleges and of schools of science not endowed by the national land grant; sale of college and professional degrees; summer and evening schools; popular science teaching; charities; sanitation and education; color blindness and myopia; the physiology of reading and writing; school grounds; school litigation; exemption of school property from taxation; forestry instruction; scientific investigations; and graphic methods of exhibiting education in museums. The Commissioner also gives conclusions and recommendations. Abstracted official reports and other information from state, territorial, and city school officers as well as a list of educational associations are included. Detailed statistics follow the report.